In the News

In a Salt Lake Tribune op-ed, Laci Begaye, a senior majoring in English Secondary Education, argues against the use of heavily mechanized land-management techniques. Advocating for minimally invasive, hands-on techniques, Begaye implores the next generation of land stewards to preserve the ancestral integrity of public lands in perpetuity.

Journalism & Multimedia Studies junior Amber Labahe received the prestigious Native American Journalists Association Facebook Journalism Project scholarship. Labahe emphasizes the importance of this scholarship in promoting Indigenous voices in journalism.

This summer, Sixth World Solutions, a grassroots consulting firm on the Navajo Nation, provided Indigenous Fort Lewis College students with agricultural internships. Funded by the Native American Agriculture Fund, these internships focused on teaching students regenerative agricultural practices that will be brought back to their home communities.

Fort Lewis College alumnus and Indigenous ultrarunner Christian Gering (Environmental Studies, ‘15) is collaborating with running outfitter Janji on the design of their new “American Southwest Collection.”