News Briefs A look at the Tribal Water Media Fellowship between KSUT and Fort Lewis College KVNF Community Radio in Paonia recently interviewed the fellows to get their perspective on what water means to them. For many people, especially Native Americans, water takes on a deeper meaning — to community, culture, and spirit.
News Briefs Can you choose to believe something, just like that? In an article for The Conversation US, Mark Boespflug, an assistant professor of Philosophy at FLC, discusses whether an individual can choose to believe and, if so, what the responsibilities associated with that choice are.
News Briefs High school students save money, get jump on college with concurrent enrollment Durango, Bayfield students credit concurrent program at Fort Lewis College to help prepare them for college.
Westernaires reenact history with Native American costumes and whoops. Critics say the depictions have no place in a modern West. What do Western traditions mean at a time when a state report last year identified at least 65 students who died more than a century ago at Colorado’s two most prominent Indian boarding schools? Megan Alvarado-Saggese, an assistant professor of Native American and Indigenous studies at FLC discusses how the U.S. military used reenactments of military battles to galvanize white Americans into...
Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students Heather Shotton, FLC's vice president of diversity affairs dicusses Indigenous student success and what it means to be a Native-ready campus. “It’s not enough just to recruit and enroll Indigenous students at our institutions, says Heather Shotton, VP for Diversity Affairs at FLC and an Indigenous Education scholar. “It’s important that institutions are ready to...