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Phillip Gover III, who is of Pawnee and Choctaw descent, will help the organization work with with tribal communities.

The state health department says private well users near Pine Winds Mobile Home Park should use bottled or filtered water.

The plaintiffs argue that the executive order is unconstitutional, a First Amendment violation, and retaliatory.

Private wells near Durango were flooded with 12 feet of gasoline after 23,000 gallons leaked from a broken Enterprise Products pipeline in December.

The college's board of trustees appointed Heather Shotton as the first Indigenous president of the Durango-based institution. Fort Lewis has a complicated history with Native Americans, as it was a federal Indian boarding school from 1892 to 1909.

The pulse of the drums and harmonious singing filled Fort Lewis College's Whalen Gym for the Hozhoni Days Powwow in Durango, Colorado.

In March, representatives of six tribes announced the formation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Inter-Tribal Coalition to work to protect the national monument.

The College's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to confirm Heather Shotton as the sole finalist to be the college’s new president. Shotton is a citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and a Kiowa and Cheyenne descendant. She is currently the vice president of diversity affairs and acting dean of students.

About 400 water users on the Southern Ute Reservation and in La Plata County depend on the aging system. They will be left with a faulty water supply until ongoing maintenance issues are addressed.

Officials at Fort Lewis College in Durango, where more than half of the student body consists of minorities, say they're committed to maintaining their mission and messaging around diversity. Yet, the college is reserved about how it would respond to losing federal funding as a result of its efforts to promote diversity.