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Towaoc, Colorado, on the Ute Mountain Reservation. (Screenshot of Google Maps)
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FBI offers reward in fatal shooting of boy on Ute Mountain Ute Reservation

By Associated Press
Zach Young, of New Haven, Conn., places a bet at one of the new sports wagering kiosks at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., in September 2021. Legalized sports betting continued its expansion in 2023 with six states either passing legislation or beginning to accept wagering, Fanatics got into the business and professional leagues and college athletics continued to further embrace the industry. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)
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The Wrap: Supreme Court won't hear sports betting challenge

By ICT
The gold dome of the State Capitol is shown on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, in downtown Denver. A report published this week, Friday, June 14, by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of $1.7 trillion worth of Indigenous homelands in Colorado by the state and the U.S. and the more than $546 million the state has reaped in mineral extraction from them. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land taken from tribal nations: report

By Graham Lee Brewer
Colorado is poised to become the first state to automatically register tribal members on reservations as it rolls out a new registration system for the two federally-recognized tribes within its borders: the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe's council chambers are pictured here on December 1, 2023. (Chris Clements/KSJD)
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Colorado will expand automatic voter registration to tribes

By KUNC
Denver city employees work to remove a statue commemorating Christopher Columbus that was toppled from its perch by protesters in June, 2020. (Photo by Associated Press)
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Denver officials say Christopher Columbus statue won’t go back up

By Stewart Huntington
Visitors pass the sign on the summit of Mount Evans near Idaho Springs, Colo., on July 15, 2016. A Colorado state panel recommended Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, that Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Colorado mountain renamed Mount Blue Sky

By JoVonne Wagner
Mary Smith, Cherokee Nation, is president of the American Bar Association and took office Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 in Denver. (Mark Trahant, ICT)
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Leading the nation’s lawyers

By Mark Trahant
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American Bar Association awards John Echohawk

By Mark Trahant
Pictured: The U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington DC., location of The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education.
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Behavioral health and wellness program expanded for tribal youth

By KUNC
Charles Wilkinson at a Native American Rights Fund event, circa 1970s. (Photo courtesy of Native American Rights Fund)
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American Indian policy innovator passes away at 81

By JoVonne Wagner
Carla Respects Nothing, from the Oglala Lakota Tribe in South Dakota, is a housing consultant for the Native American Housing Circle. Respects Nothing, who was once homeless, hopes to see a space for cultural reunification as part of the Housing Circle’s efforts to create affordable housing opportunities for Native American people in the Denver metro. “For the treaty tribes and the ones that were massacred, I just kind of want to honor their people — It’s sad for them to have to leave their homelands,” Respects Nothing said. “But we’re still here.” (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)
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Denver’s first Native affordable housing project

By Colorado Sun
Bison, also known as buffalo, walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13, 2022, near Wall, S.D. The wild animals were corralled for transfer to Native American tribes, part of an effort by Indigenous groups working with federal officials to expand the number of bison on reservations. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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Tribes get bison as they seek to restore bond with animal

By The Associated Press
Pictured Colorado State Capital Building in Denver.
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Tribal leaders stress education, water issues in Colorado

By Colorado Newsline
Visitors pass the sign on the summit of Mount Evans near Idaho Springs, Colo., on July 15, 2016. A Colorado state panel recommended Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, that Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Panel OKs name change of mountain tied to massacre

By The Associated Press
President Joe Biden, center, joins other speakers on stage before Biden designated the first national monument of his administration at Camp Hale, a World War II era training site, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, near Leadville, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Tribe criticizes Joe Biden monument on ancestral land

By The Associated Press
An entrance sign is shown at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Eads, Colo., on Dec. 27, 2019. This quiet piece of land tucked away in rural southeastern Colorado seeks to honor the 230 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe members who were slaughtered by the U.S. Army in 1864. It was one of worst mass murders in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)
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Deb Haaland: US expanding Native massacre site

By The Associated Press
The Animas River between Silverton and Durango in Colorado within 24 hours of the Gold King Mine spill. (Photo by riverhugger via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Navajo Nation reaches $31M settlement for Gold King Mine spill

By Source New Mexico
The Marshall Fire in Colorado burned the home of Ime and Gary Salazar. (Photo courtesy of Ime Salazar)
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Changing snowfall makes it harder to fight fire with fire

By The Associated Press
San Juan National Forest. (Photo by John B. Kalla, Creative Commons)
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Ranger district provides firewood for Navajo community

By The Associated Press
Colorado flag. (Photo by Kimberly Vardeman, Creative Commons)
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Colorado peak renamed Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain

By The Associated Press
Colorado Governor Jared Polis addresses the leadership group at the All Leadership Meeting held Feb. 5, 2020. The All Leadership Meeting was held Feb 5th and included messages from the Administrator, Keynote speakers: Jeff Holschuh of Morgan Stanley, Industry Panelist: Rob Chapman, Carl A. Monroe and Dr. William Fowlkes, Customer Panelists: Ed Gerak, Timothy J. Burke, Randy S. Howard and Michelle Bertolino and emceed by Teresa Waugh with closing remarks by Stacy Decker. (Photo by Western Area Power)
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Mestaa’ėhehe is hard to pronounce, says Colorado governor

By CPR News
Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. (Photo by jmcclurken, Creative Commons)
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History’s scars laid bare at former Indian boarding school

By The Associated Press
Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. (Photo by jmcclurken, Creative Commons)
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Calls to search for remains at former Colorado boarding schools

By The Associated Press