Martin Luther King Jr. March Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | Junior Parrish Martin Luther King Jr. March Fort Lewis students and staff honor the civil rights leader
Why Does the Sticker Stick with you? Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | Izzy Mora Why Does the Sticker Stick with you? From bumpers to bottles, Fort Lewis expresses itself through stickers
The Pursuit of Outdoor Inclusivity Friday, January 17, 2025 | Aleyna Kleinhaus The Pursuit of Outdoor Inclusivity Indigenous Adventure fund helps close the gap on accessibility
Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology Gerald Shorty: Indigenizing Psychology By Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer Saturday, May 21, 2022 FLC welcomes Shiprock local who aims to help Indigenous students succeed. The Counseling Center added a new staff member, Gerald Shorty, assistant director of diversity and Outreach Initiatives, this semester. Born in Shiprock, Shorty attended Nenahnezad boarding school in his childhood, he said. It was an adjustment coming from that academic setting to Shiprock High School, and later, college. Shorty focused his studies in criminology at San... Read more
Bound Together by Train Bound Together by Train By Mia McCormick Saturday, May 21, 2022 The simple bliss of riding with strangers. It’s 9 a.m. on March 27 and there’s a train full of people heading to the halfway point between Durango and Silverton, Cascade Canyon. They may be lovers, friends, family or strangers who each have their own lives in different places, and yet for the next five hours, passengers find themselves at an intersection heading down the same train track. What connects humans? More... Read more
The Bigfoot Question The Bigfoot Question By Alx Lee Indy Staff Writer Saturday, May 21, 2022 Competing perspectives on the existence of sasquatch within the Navajo Culture A predominant figure in the Four Corners, with merchandise and tales centered around its mysterious figure behind the brush, Sasquatch not only holds a place in the communities surrounding the region but also the Indigenous tribes spanning across the United States. Sasquatch, also referred to as Bigfoot, walks the line between cultural beliefs and community phenomenon. This is ever so... Read more
The Powwow Returns The Powwow Returns By Tiara Yazzie and Cameron Maroney Indy Staff Writers Saturday, May 21, 2022 PHOTO ESSAY: Two years after a pandemic hiatus, Hozhoni Days is back. With suitcases in hand and braids in place, people of all ages stood in line at the Whalen Gymnasium on April 1, eager to take in the excitement of The Hozhoni Days PowWow at Fort Lewis College after two years of its absence due to the pandemic. ‘Honoring those who never made it home’ was the theme for the 56th annual powwow at FLC, in regard to the boarding schools where... Read more
From half-pipe dream to paradise From half-pipe dream to paradise By Julian Zastrocky Indy Staff Reporter Tuesday, May 3, 2022 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... Read more