Westword: What Products Would Be Prohibited by a Denver Fur Ban?
Westword
By Hannah Metzger
Says Ken LaDeaux, board president of the Denver March Powwow, "The ban has a direct effect on our many fur-based items as we use them in our lives. The genocidal activities employed in the Plains Wars was to eliminate the buffalo, which provided for the existence of the many tribes residing there. The fur ban has the same effect."