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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...

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Writing for The Durango Herald, Andrew Gulliford, professor of History, recounts "Posey's War." It was a brutal affair, Gulliford said, started by the encroachment of settlers onto the ancestral lands of the Ute and Paiute nations. At the center of the conflict was 55-year-old William Posey: a Paiute leader...

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Reefer Madness, The Musical opened on March 17 at the Durango Arts Center and will conclude its run on April 2. It’s a high-camp parody of a deadly serious film made in 1936 to warn the nation about the menace of marijuana. It was produced by Michael McKelvey, assistant professor of Musical Theatre, in association with his company...

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Hosava Kretzmann (Public Health, '18), a citizen of the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, was the first American and sixth person to cross the finish line at the Los Angeles Marathon. The 28-year-old finished the 26.2-mile race in a time of 2:19:55 ahead of 22,000 other runners. Incredibly, it was the first...
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