Uncompahgre Ute
The Tabeguache believed that the Pikes Peak region is their home. Their name for Pikes Peak is "Tavakiev", meaning sun mountain. Living a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle, summers were spent in the Pikes Peak area mountains, which was considered by other tribes to be the domain of the Utes. Pikes Peak was a sacred ceremonial area for the Tabeguache Utes, or people of Sun Mountain, including their Sundance grounds and culturally scarred Ponderosa Pines that were used for different purposes, including prayer, burial, peeled-bark medicine, and arborglyphs or message trees. Some of the trees are 800 years old. An endowment was established by the Pikes Peak Historical Society in 2001 to help members of the Ute Nation to return to their homelands around Pikes Peak.
In the fall they would travel Ute Pass and visit the springs where they "made offerings to the spirits of the springs for good health and good hunting". There were about ten mineral springs, called "manitou" for the "breath of the Great Spirit Manitou" believed to have created the bubbles, or "effervescence", in the spring water. The springs were considered sacred grounds where Native Americans drank and soaked in the mineral water to replenish and heal themselves. Ute and other tribes came to the area, spent winters there, and "share[d] in the gifts of the waters without worry of conflict." Artifacts found from the nearby Garden of the Gods, such as grinding stones, "suggest the groups would gather together after their hunt to complete the tanning of hides and processing of meat."
Bob Pike (trainer)
Bob Pike, full name Robert William Pike (born April 22, 1947), is the founder, chairman and CEO of The Bob Pike Group in Minneapolis. He is known as “the trainer’s trainer” and specializes in training those who train others. Pike originated the idea of participant-centered training where instructors facilitate learning through the use of hands-on, interactive lessons. He has been involved in training since 1969 and has authored and co-authored 29 books, including "The Creative Training Techniques Handbook", now in its third edition. "The Creative Training Techniques Handbook" has sold more than 285,000 copies since its first printing in 1989. According to publisher Bob Carkhuff at HRD Press, which publishes "The Creative Training Techniques Handbook", Carkhuff estimated the third edition has sold about 50,000 copies. In an email, Pike said original publisher Lakewood, now defunct, had paid him royalties based on 140,000 books sold for the first edition and 95,000 for the second edition. His most recent book is "The Fun Minute Manager" (May 2009), which is co-authored with Robert C. Ford and John Newstrom.