Voices from the Edge of the Colorado Plateau

Water rights, sports gambling access, funding for health clinics, and funding for teachers were at the forefront of the tribes' statements.

The last operating uranium mill in the U.S. is in White Mesa, Utah. It's been the target of ongoing protests and criticism from environmental activist groups and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. Parent company Energy Fuels responds.

Navajo seedkeeper Graham Biyáál is preserving and sharing the foods of his ancestors with customers online and with over 13,000 Twitter followers. He lives and works on his blue corn farm in Shiprock, New Mexico.

The fair was recently held in Ignacio. Native tribes from all over the country were welcomed to the 3-day festival. More than 35 cultural, arts, and sports events took place, as well as a 2-hour parade, a powwow, a heavy metal concert featuring Indigenous bands, and an art market.

An annual Native American athletic tradition is coming back to Southwest Colorado this week after taking two years off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

KSJD Community Radio and KSUT Public Radio in Ignacio are embarking on a new collaboration funded by the Colorado Media Project. It's called Voices from the Edge of the Colorado Plateau, and it's goal is to create more coverage of underrepresented communities in the Four Corners. On a recent warm winter day, KSJD news director Lucas Brady Woods sat down for a cider with Wynn Jones, KSJD's executive director, and Tami Graham, KSUT's executive director, to discuss the project and why it's important for communities in the region.