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It’s starting to look a lot like football season. The Buffs open their season tonight at home against North Dakota State, Air Force has their opener at home Saturday, while the Rams and the UNC Bears are in Texas to open their seasons this weekend. Not even Labor Day yet and the fall vibes are strong.
Find today’s news plus What’s Happening this weekend below, and keep with The Sun throughout the day for updates to the ongoing special session on property taxes, as well as a report on how schools performed on their standardized test scores. Download our app for updates as soon as those stories hit, or just keep checking back at coloradosun.com.
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Colorado’s plan to trap, relocate wolves “did not go well” for Montana wildlife officials
A new CPW plan to trap and move a Grand County wolf pack that has produced three pups has drawn the ire of advocacy groups. It’s a potentially precedent-setting move nine months into the state’s wolf-reintroduction efforts, leaving many to wonder how we can expect the wolves to readjust again to new surroundings. Jason Blevins looks at how past efforts in Montana fared, and what it could mean for Colorado’s wolves.
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Colorado is among the slowest in the nation at food assistance — and its dysfunctional technology is part of the problem
A faulty technology system is keeping needy families in Colorado from government assistance, Jennifer Brown reports. It’s gotten so bad that the state is under a federal corrective action plan to improve upon its food assistance times, which rank among the five worst in the nation.
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What’s Happening
Aug. 29-Sept. 4
Blessing Ceremony and Opening Reception. A new collaborative exhibit in Fort Collins explores Colorado State University’s physical connection to the Native Cheyenne and Arapaho people on whose land the university sits.
In 1862 the Morrill Act granted hundreds of thousands of acres to states in order to fund a nationwide higher education system. The states could choose to either sell that land to fund a new college or university, or use the land to expand an existing institution. CSU Fort Collins is one of more than 100 land-grant institutions in the United States, and the only land-grant university in Colorado.
But the granted land was often contingent on the forced or coerced removal of Indigenous tribes. Efforts to reconcile Native interests with land-grant institutions, including a 771-page report detailing the $1.7 trillion worth of Indigenous homelands given to Colorado, has garnered public attention.
A new show at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art on the CSU campus is part of this ongoing recognition and reconciliation. The exhibit, titled “3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ/Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations” was co-curated by Haida/Arapaho artist Bruce A. Cook III, Southern Cheyenne/Arapaho artist George Curtis Levi and Emily Moore, associate curator at the museum.
A blessing ceremony and opening reception will be held today from 4-6 p.m., and the exhibition, which features Cheyenne and Arapaho art from the 19th century through the present, will be on display until Dec. 15.
Free; 4-6 p.m., Aug. 29; Organ Recital Hall, 1400 Remington St., Fort Collins
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