Clark Adomaitis
Reporter, Voices From the Edge of the Colorado PlateauClark Adomaitis is a Durango transplant from New York City. He is a recent graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he focused on reporting and producing for radio and podcasts. He reported sound-rich stories on the state of recycling and compost in NYC.
Before his graduate studies, he wrote lifestyle spreads for the City College of New York's Campus Magazine about local food and drink. In his free time, he produces experimental and humorous hip-hop music.
He’s excited to learn and share stories from underrepresented voices in the Four Corners region, including reports from the Ute tribe, the Navajo Nation, the LGBTQ+ community, and the Latinx community.
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The park established the Indigenous Ranger Internship Program in 2022. It seeks to hire young Native Americans as park rangers and tour guides. It comes as the National Park Service is trying to include more Indigenous perspectives in its storytelling. -
Tribal members and other motorcyclists recently rode to the Southern Ute Cultural Center in Ignacio. The ride was part of a larger five-day motorcycle rally.
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Box is a Southern Ute elder whose art reflects his experiences in boarding school, the military, and his service to the tribe
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About 20 Native American teens and children competed in the 2023 games in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Team Colorado joined competitions in basketball, archery, badminton, and golf.
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The Southern Ute tribe hosted a summer seminar series open to the public, where students can learn the basics of the Ute language. Hanley Frost, the Southern Ute elder who led the class, has collected Ute dictionaries and taught the language for years.
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Tribal attorneys nationwide are concerned about a recent Supreme Court ruling on Navajo Nation water rights. An attorney for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe says the ruling calls into question the trustee relationship between tribes and the federal government.
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The Biden Administration recently placed a lease moratorium on federal lands within a ten-mile radius of Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The ban is part of an effort to preserve historical sites in and around Chaco Canyon. But some Navajo landowners in the region are split over the decision.
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The commission provided guidance to the City Council on diversity, equity, and inclusion. In November of 2022, four of the five members resigned. Plans for a new commission are still on hold.
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On June 2, the Biden Administration placed a 20-year moratorium on new oil, gas, and mineral development in a 10-mile area around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. While several tribes supported the decision, it upset leaders of the Navajo Nation.
