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Every community has its own unique place names, often with a backstory. In Telluride, a proposed development has brought renewed attention to a traffic circle long known as 'Society Turn.'
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Nevada Indian Commission Head On Residential School Deaths In U.S.: 'Shocking' But 'Known All Along'Deb Haaland announced an investigation into former residential schools for Native Americans — like the Stewart Indian School in Nevada that operated from 1890 to 1980.
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California's Project Homekey buys motels and turns them into housing for the state's homeless population. Three of its 94 new housing projects are run by Native American tribes.
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A Massive Plumbing System Moves Water Across Colorado’s Mountains. But There Isn't Much To Go AroundThe Colorado River supplies drinking water for some of the West’s biggest cities. And a lot of them lie outside the river’s natural watershed. Canals,…
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The federal government is releasing water from reservoirs in Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico in an emergency attempt to prop up the nation’s second…
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Emergency water releases from reservoirs upstream of Lake Powell are underway to preserve the nation’s second-largest reservoir’s ability to generate hydroelectric power.
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A new Colorado law offers a pathway to an associates degree for thousands of students who have completed course work at public colleges and…
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Some college students in Arizona are finding help in the pandemic through a traditional Native American practice. Cronkite News Health Journalist Gianluca…
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a La Nina Watch last week. That means the far-reaching La Niña weather pattern, which is…
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A first-of-its-kind nuclear power plant is coming to Wyoming. That was the news announced last month by Governor Mark Gordon and the leaders of two major…
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Communities in the Navajo Nation are being hit hard by the so-called megadrought that's hitting the Western U.S.In Montezuma County, some communities…