Fort Lewis College

In 2024, KSUT partnered with the Four Corners Water Center at Fort Lewis College to host the Tribal Water Media Fellowship. Eleven young people explored the connection to water for themselves, their communities, and their cultures.

At Fort Lewis, nearly half of the current student population identifies as Indigenous. With the report out, the school’s attention is on figuring out how to offer time and space for students to process the information and heal.

Over the next year, History Colorado, a nonprofit and an agency under the state’s department of higher education, will investigate the experiences, abuse and deaths of students at the former Fort Lewis Indian School near Durango.

Fort Lewis College was closed as a precaution after threats of violence were made on social media. By noon, the college sent a campus alert advising students to shelter in place.

Internship program hones lessons taught by parents and grandparents as students learn the role food, housing, language and ritual play in contemporary human rights struggles.

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that would make Juneteenth a legal public holiday. KSUT’s Sarah Flower spoke with Tarecka Payne,…

Colorado Governor Jared Polis made his way around the southwestern part of the state this weekend including visits to Durango, the Southern Ute Indian…

First-year and returning students at Fort Lewis College in Durango will have one more item to check off their to-do list before coming to campus this…

Senate Bill 21-29 would require public universities to offer in-state tuition classification to students who are members of an Indigenous tribe with…

Indigenous students with historical ties to Colorado could soon get in-state tuition at public colleges under a proposal that recently cleared its first…