Native American

Ute tribes reimagine Bear Dances

As coronavirus locks down reservations, Ute tribes use social media, videos of past dances

DATE: Jun 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bill aims to address Native American voter disenfranchisement

Tribes make case for more polling locations, ballots in own language

DATE: Feb 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Students: Fort Lewis College’s dark history needs to be addressed

Clock tower panels gloss over history; some say that’s just ‘tip of the iceberg’

DATE: Dec 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Legislation aims to preserve 148 Native languages

‘Native languages in the U.S. represent some of the greatest linguistic diversity’

DATE: Dec 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Fort Lewis College re-examines its past

More complete portrayal of boarding school period will be a focus

DATE: Dec 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

What does Thanksgiving really mean?

‘Colonization dehumanizes both the colonized and the colonizer’

DATE: Nov 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Fort Lewis College celebrates fourth year of Indigenous Peoples Day

Events focus on missing, murdered women

DATE: Oct 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Artifacts taken from Mesa Verde are coming home

Tribes welcome return of human remains, funeral objects removed in 1890s

DATE: Oct 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amid calls for preservation, CDOT says archaeological sites can’t be saved

U.S. Highway 550 realignment to destroy ruins south of Durango

DATE: Sep 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

FLC student learns about her culture to teach others

Sophomore brings experience from Potawatomi leadership program back to campus

DATE: Sep 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Book tries to show how U.S. democracy hurt Native Americans

ALBUQUERQUE – A new book by a noted historian attempts to show how expanding American democracy hurt Native Americans in the early days of the nation and how tribes viewed the young United S...

DATE: Aug 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Trove of archaeological ruins unearthed south of Durango

Well-preserved Native American artifacts are in path of realigned Highway 550

DATE: Aug 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

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