Indigenous People

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

As immigration enforcement expands nationwide, Native families say increased ICE activity is creating fear in their communities, even among U.S. citizens and tribal members.

The U.S. Department of Education started to send notices of collection, which may include wage garnishment, to borrowers whose student loans have gone unpaid for more than nine months and are in default status. Employers can withhold up to 15% of disposable income, without a court order, from employees whose student loans are in default.

A traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian is making a stop in Breckenridge. Americans looks at the impact that American Indians have had on the nation’s history and identity.

The report finds children raised by grandparents face higher rates of poverty and limited access to support services.

Seven hundred boxes of food went out into the community at the end of November, each with a package of bison meat from the reservation and chokecherry jam for elders.