Past Events

Location:  Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum

Join the Center of Southwest Studies at the closing celebration of As Seeds, We Grow: Student Reflections on Resilience, an exhibition curated by FLC alumna and Curatorial Fellow Elise Boulanger, citizen of the Osage Nation.

Location: Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum

The Center is partnering with faculty and students from FLC’s English Department and Native American and Indigenous Studies Program to host a lecture series focused on films documenting the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition in Utah.

Location: Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum

Join us for an evening of conversation with ultra-endurance racer Alexandera Houchin.

Location: Student Union Ballroom

Classes and community members are invited to participate. Drop-in at your convenience between 10 a.m. - noon and 1 - 4 p.m.

Location: Native American Center and Cultural Kitchen

Classes and community members are invited to participate.

RSVP REQUIRED

Location: Native American Center

Join the Center of Southwest Studies and Native American Center for a Deepening Native Roots lunch with Jessa Rae Growing Thunder. This event is open to students only.

Presented by the Center of Southwest Studies

Tuesday, September 13, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Center for Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College
Contact: Elizabeth Quinn MacMillan, 970.247.7333, museum@fortlewis.edu

Elise Boulanger, Curatorial Fellow, will lead a guided tour of her exhibition As Seeds, We Grow: Student Reflections on Resilience which celebrates Indigenous identity and resilience with consideration to Fort Lewis College’s history as a federal Indian boarding school.

This program is part of History Live! Learn about other History Live! events.

Presented by Pine River Library and the Center of Southwest Studies

Wednesday, September 7, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Pine River Library
Contact: Darcy Poletti, darcy@prlibrary.org, 970.884.2222 ext. 522

In 1920s Bayfield, Pine River Klan No. 69 of the Ku Klux Klan numbered more than 100 members. A century later, the community will gather to examine this chapter of the town’s past. Why should we care? What can we learn from hateful history and how can it help us move forward? A panel discussion will feature experts from Bayfield’s history museum, Fort Lewis College, and the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, which has housed a collection of KKK records and artifacts from Bayfield discovered above an old commercial garage and donated nearly 40 years ago.

This program is part of History Live! Learn about other History Live! events.

Award Winning Tlingit Artist and Carver, James Johnson, will be doing a two day carving demonstration in the Center of Southwest Studies Courtyard.

Award Winning Tlingit Artist and Carver, James Johnson, will be doing a two day carving demonstration in the Center of Southwest Studies Courtyard.