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KSUT Conversation: 'Survivors Way,' a multi-event performance on trauma and connection

Crisostos Apache (at left) and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis

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KSUT Conversation: New Colorado Poet Laureate Crisosto Apache

KSUT Staff

Crisosto, of Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné lineage, will serve as poet laureate for two years.

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The NPR and Colorado stations that took Trump to court

Lucy Schiller, Columbia Journalism Review

“It isn’t just an affront to localism. It’s an attempt to reengineer thought.”

Doug McCarthy (2nd from left), co-director of the newly founded Southwest Colorado Cares project, along with additional board members, clients, and staff at a recent SCCC board retreat.

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KSUT Conversation, Doug McCarthy of Southwest Colorado Cares on connecting community organizations

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KSUT Conversation: Filmmaker Brian Malone on his film exploring local journalism's role in democracy

The film screens in Durango on Wednesday, January 14, followed by a community discussion.

Protesters link arms and prepare to block vehicles from leaving the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango on Friday.

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Two residents arrested by ICE in Durango and Mancos

Federal immigration agents arrested a Durango resident on New Year’s Eve and a Mancos resident on January 2nd. Protests erupted at the ICE field office in Durango after the arrests.

Ute Mountain Tribal Park guide Beverly Lehi-Yazzie, third from front, leads a group of visitors to a display of pottery and tool remains near a cliff dwelling on Sept. 19, 2025. The park is only accessible to visitors through reservations with approved tribal guides.

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Thinking about taking a pottery shard from Mesa Verde or Ute Mountain Tribal Park? Don’t

Elaine Tassy

Drop it right now, before something bad happens to you.

Students in the Ute language class at Kwiyagat Community Academy in Towaoc, practice using their native language to sat “bear” while gathered around a mural of the animal, which is also the school’s mascot. Sept. 18, 2025.

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These elementary schools in Southwest Colorado are trying to save the Ute language

Elaine Tassy

The only problem: No one is fully fluent.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who represented Colorado in both houses of Congress, poses for a portrait with his wife, Linda Campbell, on July 12, 2025, in their home on the Southern Ute Reservation in southwest Colorado. Campbell worked for years to advance the Animas-La Plata Project and a key tribal water settlement during his time in Washington D.C.

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Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell dies at 92

Taylor Dolven

Campbell was the first Native American to chair the Committee on Indian Affairs and the only Native American to serve in the Senate during his two terms. Campbell and his wife have lived on a ranch on the Southern Ute reservation since 1978.

Executives from three co-plaintiff member stations in NPR v. Trump, pose outside of federal courthouse in Washington , DC, on December 4, 2025. From left, KSUT executive director Tami Graham, Colorado Public Radio CEO/president Stewart Vanderwilt, and Aspen Public Radio executive director Breeze Richardson.

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First Amendment scholar: Trump’s actions against public media are brazen, but not unprecedented

Adam Burke

On December 4, NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations faced off against the Trump Administration in federal court. After reviewing a transcript of the hearing, First Amendment litigator and scholar Robert Corn-Revere said that NPR's lawsuit appears to have merit.