Native American Issues

It Takes a Tribe

The puzzling death of a DNC guest

Weaving a Story

The Hillerman Way

Class Dismissed

Following the path of the shaman just got tougher at Colorado Free University.

Veggie Girl: Tocabe

My roots go deep in New Mexico, so I'm fairly well-versed when it comes to Native American cuisine, and Indian fry bread and Navajo tacos are a few of my very favorite treats. So I was thrilled to hear that a new, fast-casual Native American place was opening at 3536 West 44th Avenue. Tocabe is m ... More >>

Bless This Mess

My roots go deep in New Mexico, so I'm fairly well-versed when it comes to Native American cuisine, and Indian fry bread and Navajo tacos are a few of my very favorite treats. So I was thrilled to hear that a new, fast-casual Native American place was opening at 3536 West 44th Avenue. Tocabe is m ... More >>

A New Frontier

Anti-Columbus Day activists batten down the hatches in preparation for holiday protests.

Native Sons

Anti-Columbus Day activists batten down the hatches in preparation for holiday protests.

Palatial Powwow

Royalty returns to Denver for the annual native celebration.

Sundance Sensation

Leonard Peltier's life hits the stage.

Breaking the Mold

Virginia Mattern's collection of Native American art is at the DAM.

Glass Menagerie

The spectacular Dale Chihuly solo sparkles at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Lewis and Clark Disembark

Denver gets a visit from a stunning retrospective on the journey of Lewis and Clark.

Return of the Native

Ben Nighthorse Campbell works in silver, but his future looks golden.

Off Limits

Bean and nothingness

Western Culture

The CSFAC examines the Old West while its new director shakes up the place.

Fancy Footwork

David Taylor Dance stomps stereotypes

Pop Quiz

A small tell-all

Shifting Sands

A small tell-all

A Blanket Indictment

A small tell-all

Plane Truths

A small tell-all

All Aboard

A small tell-all

Sage Remington

Return of the Native

Grave Reservations

The Colorado Historical Society has collected Indian artifacts for 120 years. Now it has to give many of them back.

Liquid Gold

A secret memo reveals a new compromise on the controversial Animas-La Plata Water Project.

Dark Days on Black Mesa

The Hopi want one of the largest coal mines in North America to stop using their groundwater. If springs and wells dry up, their ancient culture may disappear.

Life's a Stitch

The Hopi want one of the largest coal mines in North America to stop using their groundwater. If springs and wells dry up, their ancient culture may disappear.

Trickle-Down Economics

A new proposal could leave Animas-La Plata proponents high and dry.

Sticking Point

Step right up and get your gen-u-wine Ben Nighthorse knife!

Cheyenne Autumn

Step right up and get your gen-u-wine Ben Nighthorse knife!

Wade in the Water

Governor Romer and the lieutenant governor step into the Animas-La Plata dispute.

Athlete, Artist, Indian Chief

From dark horse to Nighthorse, it's been one hell of a ride for Ben Campbell.

Rough Waters

The Animas-La Plata project is supposed to fulfill the government's promise to Colorado Utes. But tribal opponents worry it will leave the reservations high and dry.

BIG WHEELS

HOW THE GOVERNMENT SPENT BIG BUCKS STUDYING A SUPPOSED INDIAN MEDICINE WHEEL.

TRANSCENDENTAL DESECRATION

IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL VIBES, NEW-AGERS RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK.

THE WHEEL THING

IS NOTHING SACRED? AN UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING OF THE TRIBES IN BOULDER TRIES TO DECIDE.

LETTERS

IS NOTHING SACRED? AN UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING OF THE TRIBES IN BOULDER TRIES TO DECIDE.

FAMILY FEUD

DO YOU HAVE TO BE AN INDIAN TO TEACH INDIAN? A BOULDER SQUABBLE BECOMES A NATIONAL DEBATE.

CIVIL WARS

THE FURY FLIES AS INDIAN ACTIVISTS TAKE AIM AT EACH OTHER.

Meat with meaning at Whole Foods

Photo by Arapaho RancMany Whole Foods stores in the Rocky Mountain region are featuring a special kind of meat right now, a meat that has some meaning. Panorama Grass-Fed Meats Inc. and the Arapaho Ranch, a native American enterprise, have partnered to bring organic, grass-fed meat to you.At the Bel ... More >>

Tonight: feast on art in northwest Denver

​If your New Year's resolution was to get out of the house, head to northwest Denver at 6 p.m. tonight, when the Navajo Street Art District will host Art a la Carte, a progressive dinner-slash-artwalk. It begins at D Gallery, 3558 Navajo Street, where you'll enjoy hot toddies before moving on ... More >>

Colorado tribes looking to ramp up renewable energy, too

A photo of Ignacio, Colorado, home base of the Southern Ute tribe.​In recent days, the New Mexico-based Jemez Pueblo tribe has gotten plenty of ink for its plan to build "the first utility-scale solar plant on tribal land." Turns out two Colorado tribes -- the Southern Utes and Ute Mountain Ut ... More >>

Northern Arapaho tribe's deal with Whole Foods falls apart

arapaho ranch​The idea sounded so good: In "Meat with Meaning at Whole Foods," his May 2009 post, Tyler Nemkov described how Whole Foods had contracted with California-based Panorama Meats to buy organic, grass-fed beef from a ranch owned by the Northern Arapaho tribe on the Wind River reserv ... More >>

Tonight: Growing up White on the Reservation revisits a turbulent time in 1972

Pamela Mencher is white.​Pamela Mencher has spent eleven years working on her play -- but in some ways, she's been working on it her whole life. Born on a Lakota/Sioux reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Mencher spent her formative years there and on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana dur ... More >>

Panorama Meats picks Kiowa Valley Organics' beef for Whole Foods

http://www.panoramameats.com/​ Panorama Meats, the country's largest grass-fed, organic beef supplier, has selected Kiowa Valley Organics to supply the Whole Foods Market on Pearl Street in Boulder. The California-based Panorama selects farms if "they follow Panorama's raising protocols, whi ... More >>

Carol Harvey out as Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs' executive secretary

Carol Harvey.​If Thanksgiving is approaching, it must be time for another controversy at the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, which is overseen by the state's lieutenant governor. Back in 1988, then-lite guv Mike Callihan created a ruckus with his plans for a feast in a Mayflower moving ... More >>

Carol Harvey's ouster from state Commission of Indian Affairs unanimously validated

Carol Harvey.​Update: The Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs conference-call meeting this morning was crowded, despite the fact that there was only one item on the agenda. But since that item was the dismissal of commission executive secretary Carol Harvey, there was plenty of interest in h ... More >>

Carol Harvey dismissal: Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs looking for her replacement

Carol Harvey.​The e-mails were flying before last Wednesday's Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs meeting, which had one agenda item: the dismissal of executive secretary Carol Harvey, who'd been on the job since March 2010 and was let go in early November. But during that conference-call me ... More >>

Ernest House Jr. back at the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs

Ernest House Jr.​It turned out to be tempest in a teepee. Two months after Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia removed Carol Harvey as executive secretary of the Colorado Commission or Indian Affairs, which his office oversees, Ernest House Jr. has been ratified as the new executive secretary. An ... More >>