Indigenous People

Crossing Colorado's Rocky Mountains was once a huge challenge. It would take Indigenous ingenuity, cutting-edge construction, and a fight for gender equality to change how people traveled to the Western Slope.

The North Boulder Library is hosting a summer exhibition of Indigenous women artists. It's an effort to highlight their work in high-traffic areas and support the future of young Native artists.

Traditional forms of therapy don't work for everyone. Carbondale-based nonprofit WindWalkers offers horse-assisted services to fill that gap. This story is part of our "On the Ground" radio series, which highlights solutions to local and global issues from Roaring Fork and Colorado River valley organizations.

A new Government Accountability Office report finds tribal Head Start programs are struggling with staffing, enrollment, and slow responses from federal officials.

The city of Steamboat Springs held a ceremony at Civic Plaza to dedicate a new sculpture honoring the Ute Bear Dance and celebrate the enduring cultural heritage of the Ute people in the Yampa Valley.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples recently accepted artifacts from officials at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. Most of the returned items are believed to be linked to burial sites.

New funding is aimed at helping fossil fuel-dependent communities in the Mountain West navigate a changing energy economy, with one project focused on the Four Corners region.

Proposed legislation would protect nearly 450 miles of waterways from dams and mining amid the Trump administration’s push for more development.

Supporters say it would protect transgender kids and others, but Democratic sponsors removed a key provision after Gov. Polis signaled he would veto the measure.

Declining snowpack is creating new challenges for irrigation, livestock, and traditional food systems in tribal communities