Kiiyahno Edgewater (Diné), Scout Edmondson, AJ Repinski, Derek Tippeconnie (Lenape)
Recognizing the past and reaching for the future of Fort Lewis College
On Tuesday Oct. 3, a group of Fort Lewis College students and faculty came together for the FLC Opportunities for Healing through Reconciliation Efforts event, held in the Center for Indigenous Research of Culture and Language to discuss a very troubling yet important topic: the release of History Colorado and FLC’s “Federal Indian Boarding Schools in Colorado, 1880-1920”...
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Lisia Lucero
Losing light and losing time but not losing yourself
What is your definition of self care?
Alita Lynch
Alita Lynch, 18, first-year student: Lynch defines self care as time with herself that is free of worries and free of figuring out if she needs to do work.
Kaneesha Bitsinnie
Kaneesha Bitsinnie, 19, first-year student: Bitsinnie said she sees self care as taking care of your well-being and doing more than you...
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Mia McCormick
Acquainting Myself with Death.
I’m sitting at the base of a gnarled pinion pine tree in the middle of the woods behind the Bader-Snyder complex. It’s dark and the rain has been pounding the saturated soil relentlessly, but I am dry, and looking up at my protector, the arching branches that stretch around me like arms.
The smell of earth, wet bark and seeping sap mingle in my nose as I close my eyes,...
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Mia McCormick
What are some of our Fort Lewis students going to be for Halloween tonight?
What are you going to be for Halloween?
Mya Simon third-year Music Performance and English major
Calla Carrigan, first-year undecided:
We are going to be wizard cowboys and will probably try to make our costumes or thrift them.
Mya Simon on left, Calla Carrigan on right
Jordan Mayhew second-year Psychology major:
I am going to Rapunzel and...
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Words: by Derek Tippeconnie Picture by: Jerry McBride of Durango Herald
Learning from past mistakes and what to expect this Halloween at the infamous Durango Zombie March.
For over a decade, hordes of zombies have descended on downtown Durango every Halloween, just as the clocks strikes midnight. But these zombies are different from the ones you may have seen in The Walking Dead or Zombieland.
The hordes of undead are actually a combination of students, Durango residents and whomever finds themselves swept up in their midst as they march down Main...
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