La Sierra: Documents on the Restoration of Commons

Moderator's Note: This is a fascinating and accurate documentary on the history of the land rights struggle for La Sierra, the 80,000 acre commons of the Sangre De Cristo Land Grant. It was prepared by emilyvid, a YouTube contributor affiliated with a group of college students working at the Auraria Media Center in Auraria, Colorado.

The documentary portrays the history of the land rights movement for La Sierra. The heirs and successors of the land grant achieved restoration of their use rights to this commons in 2002 under the terms of an unprecedented Colorado Supreme Court decision in the case of Lobato v. Taylor. For more information and updates, please consult our blog series on La lucha por La Sierra by linking through the topics cloud in the left-hand margin.