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Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology

Saturday, May 21, 2022 | By Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer

Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology

FLC welcomes Shiprock local who aims to help Indigenous students succeed.

Bound Together by Train Bound Together by Train

Saturday, May 21, 2022 | By Mia McCormick

Bound Together by Train

The simple bliss of riding with strangers. 

The Bigfoot Question
 The Bigfoot Question

Saturday, May 21, 2022
By Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer

The Bigfoot Question

Competing perspectives on the existence of sasquatch within the Navajo Culture
What’s fueling high gas prices?
 What’s fueling high gas prices?

Saturday, May 21, 2022
By Kealey Meyer Indy Staff Writer

What’s fueling high gas prices?

How the conflict in Ukraine is impacting your commute to campus.

The Powwow Returns
 The Powwow Returns

Saturday, May 21, 2022
By Tiara Yazzie and Cameron Maroney Indy Staff Writers

The Powwow Returns

PHOTO ESSAY: Two years after a pandemic hiatus, Hozhoni Days is back.

From half-pipe dream to paradise
 From half-pipe dream to paradise

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
By Julian Zastrocky Indy Staff Reporter

From half-pipe dream to paradise

How two students pushed for a portable park and gave a growing community a place to skate.

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From half-pipe dream to paradise From half-pipe dream to paradise

From half-pipe dream to paradise

By Julian Zastrocky Indy Staff Reporter

How two students pushed for a portable park and gave a growing community a place to skate.

A skatepark on campus. That was an idea that FLC Students Lleyton Hull and Joey Borer had when they came to Fort Lewis College in the fall of 2021. “It's a cool college,” Hull said. “But why is there not a skatepark when there are so many skaters?” So, Hull and Borer began to work towards building an on-campus skate park. Step one was to organize themselves as...

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Four stars for my four day quarantine Four stars for my four day quarantine

Four stars for my four day quarantine

By Mia McCormick Indy Staff Writer

After testing positive for COVID-19, one reporter tells-all about her stay in FLC's COVID hotel

Isolation room 336 smelled like cleaning products and fresh linens the first time I  entered it. When I hurried out the door on my fourth and final day in the COVID hotel, the air that followed me was thick with the odor of soggy, untouched food and unhinged boredom.  I got my positive COVID-19 test results on Jan. 28. A few hours after I got the dreaded email from the health...

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Thinking outside of the 9 to 5 Thinking outside of the 9 to 5

Thinking outside of the 9 to 5

By Julian Zastrocky Indy Staff Writer

From coffee-making to plant-care to art, here's how some students on campus pay the bills. 

What better way to make a little extra money than a side hustle. Some students at Fort Lewis College sometimes need a little extra money, so they use their interests and skills to make the extra cash they need. But other times that little extra cash can turn into more.  Devyn Valandra is a sophomore at FLC, majoring in entrepreneurship. When he was a senior in high school, he took a...

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'A String of Prayers' 'A String of Prayers'

'A String of Prayers'

By Dorothy Elder Editor-in-chief

Behind a four-day, 232 mile prayer run that stretched all around the Four Corners region to raise awareness and pray for missing and murdered Indigenous women.

For around an hour on a cold, brisk Friday in February, the First Assembly of God’s church parking lot in rural Dove Creek saw the most action it’d probably seen in years, as cars swiftly pulled in, sandwiches were exchanged and runners eagerly drank water.  It was a small pitstop, just off U.S. Highway 491, in a rather large endeavor: a four-day, 232 mile prayer run that...

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Lee Bitsóí Departs FLC Lee Bitsóí Departs FLC

Lee Bitsóí Departs FLC

By Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer

Effective on March 1, LeManuel “Lee” Bitsóí, associate vice president for diversity affairs and Special Advisor for Indigenous Affairs has left his position at Fort Lewis College.

Effective on March 1, LeManuel “Lee” Bitsóí, associate vice president for diversity affairs and special advisor for Indigenous affairs has left his position at Fort Lewis College. The news first broke after an email sent from Bitsóí to Fort Lewis College President Tom Stritikus was shared with the FLC community.   The email included Bitsóí’s acceptance to the...

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