A multi-piece art installation, anchored in the Arapaho language, asks skiers and riders to acknowledge the role snow plays in their lives, cultures and ecosystems
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Posted inEducation
A Navajo teacher is among the first Colorado educators to revive Indigenous language in the classroom
Elfreida Begay began teaching the Navajo language Diné Bizaad at Durango High School this fall, helping her Indigenous students reclaim their culture and language after their ancestors were stripped of their Native identities
Posted inPolitics and Government
Office for Indigenous victims says it’s moving as fast as it can, but acknowledges families’ frustrations
Director Arron Julian says case investigations often involve cross-jurisdictional challenges
Posted inEquity
One Navajo community finally gets electricity after more than 10 years. It’s still waiting for water.
Westwater, a small subdivision in Utah, has run into barrier after barrier for more than 20 years as it tries to bring clean, running water to its residents.
Posted inBookstore Recommendations, SunLit
Suggestions from the staff at Out West Books for your next great read
As part of The Colorado Sun’s literature section — SunLit — we’re featuring staff picks from book stores across the state. >> Click here for more SunLit This week’s bookstore: Out West Books, 533 Main St., Grand Junction outwestbooks.co | @outwestbooks on Twitter, Instagram The Dominguez-Escalante Journal Edited by Ted J. WarnerUniversity of Utah Press$14.95Dec. 4, 2004 >> Purchase […]
Posted inBookstore Recommendations, SunLit
What the staff at Out West Books thinks you should be reading right now
As part of The Colorado Sun’s literature section — SunLit — we’re featuring staff picks from book stores across the state. >> Click here for more SunLit This week’s bookstore: Out West Books, 533 Main St., Grand Junction outwestbooks.co | @outwestbooks on Twitter, Instagram Troubled Trails By Bob SilbernagelUniversity of Utah Press$24.95Aug. 31, 2011 >> Purchase From the publisher: […]
Posted inBook Excerpts, SunLit
Sunlit Excerpt: “Saving Yellowstone” views an iconic landscape through lens of Reconstruction, national expansion
Prologue Lost The Cut, Montana Territory. October 1870. The dog stopped along the trail ahead of him, growling. Yellowstone Jack Baronett reined in his horse and dismounted, taking his gun from the saddle. He soon saw what had captured the dog’s attention: an animal was dragging itself slowly up the side of the Cut, a […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: Shift Colorado’s transportation priorities away from asphalt and toward mass transit
Transformational. Historic. Once in a generation. That’s how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has been framed by leaders across the country, including here in Colorado. Now that funding is starting to be dispersed to Colorado, if we aren’t intentional and proactive, this funding could maintain the status quo, or even worse, increase the […]
Posted inColoradans, Equity, Housing, News, Politics and Government
A Native-inclusive safe campsite has opened in Denver. But some lament loss of community.
When Wanbli Cabrera and several of her family members started camping outside of Four Winds American Indian Council at West Fifth Avenue and Bannock Street in Denver five months ago, they were running out of options. They had been camping on the streets of Denver for years — two, in Cabrera’s case, and longer for […]
Posted inColoradans, Education, Equity, News, Politics and Government
A new Colorado law granting Native Americans in-state college tuition is already attracting students
About 200 Native American students enrolled in state colleges and universities should each see their annual tuition slashed by about $15,000 this year under a new law that provides in-state status to members of 48 tribes with historical ties to Colorado. While the number of students immediately impacted is small, education officials and proponents of […]