Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College

Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College The Center of Southwest Studies is a museum, research library, and archives dedicated to the diverse cultures of the Southwest.

CSWS shares the mission of Fort Lewis College to promote inclusive, experiential learning that fosters innovation and growth.

๐Ÿ“ข ๐„๐•๐„๐๐“ ๐‘๐„-๐’๐‚๐‡๐„๐ƒ๐”๐‹๐„!Due to evolving weather and out of consideration for our guest speakers and audiences traveling in, ...
09/29/2026

๐Ÿ“ข ๐„๐•๐„๐๐“ ๐‘๐„-๐’๐‚๐‡๐„๐ƒ๐”๐‹๐„!
Due to evolving weather and out of consideration for our guest speakers and audiences traveling in, we have decided to reschedule tonight's talk to ๐“๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐Ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘. We appreciate your patience and look forward to seeing you all in a few weeks!

โœจ๐™‰๐™€๐™’ ๐˜ฟ๐˜ผ๐™๐™€
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ž๐๐š๐ซ ๐Œ๐ž๐ฌ๐š ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ
๐Ÿ“… ๐“๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐Ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ | ๐Ÿ”:๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐Œ
๐Ÿ“ Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum (Room 120), Fort Lewis College
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free & Open to All
๐ŸŽฌ Featuring a 30-minute documentary film screening, ๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’–๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’”๐’„๐’‚๐’‘๐’†: ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ช๐’†๐’…๐’‚๐’“ ๐‘ด๐’†๐’”๐’‚ ๐‘ท๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’‰๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’†๐’” ๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’„๐’• by Cloudy Ridge Productions
๐Ÿ”— https://tinyurl.com/9warp7wu
What's Happening Durango
Four Corners Lecture Series
Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable
Four Corners Museum Network
Fort Lewis College

The Center's fall programs continue with two exciting presentations coming up this week and next... Join Us!โœจ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐’ ๐–๐„๐„๐Š๐–๐จ...
09/21/2026

The Center's fall programs continue with two exciting presentations coming up this week and next... Join Us!

โœจ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐’ ๐–๐„๐„๐Š
๐–๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐‹๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ฌ: ๐ƒ๐š๐ซ๐›๐ฒ ๐‘๐š๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐-๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ญ
๐Ÿ“… ๐“๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ | ๐Ÿ”:๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐Œ
๐Ÿ“ Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum (Room 120), Fort Lewis College
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free & Open to All
๐Ÿ”— https://tinyurl.com/4fbhdvtv

โœจ๐๐„๐—๐“ ๐–๐„๐„๐Š
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ž๐๐š๐ซ ๐Œ๐ž๐ฌ๐š ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ
๐Ÿ“… ๐“๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ— | ๐Ÿ”:๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐Œ
๐Ÿ“ Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum (Room 120), Fort Lewis College
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free & Open to All
๐ŸŽฌ Featuring a 30-minute documentary film screening, ๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’–๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’”๐’„๐’‚๐’‘๐’†: ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ช๐’†๐’…๐’‚๐’“ ๐‘ด๐’†๐’”๐’‚ ๐‘ท๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’‰๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’†๐’” ๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’„๐’• by Cloudy Ridge Productions
๐Ÿ”— https://tinyurl.com/9warp7wu
Fort Lewis College
FLC Native American Center
Fort Lewis College Art Gallery
Durango Creative District
Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable
Four Corners Museum Network
Four Corners Lecture Series
What's Happening Durango
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Bears Ears Partnership
Darby Raymond-Overstreet
Meranda Roberts
Visit Durango
Durango 9-R Title VI Native American Education
Laurie Webster
Fort Lewis College Art Gallery
Department of Art & Design at Fort Lewis College
Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance
Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum
Montezuma Land Conservancy


๐Ÿ“ขThe ICC Guide is LIVE! ๐ŸŽ‰ Check it out, including the beautiful design work by Neebinnaukzhik Southall! โœจThe Center of S...
09/16/2026

๐Ÿ“ขThe ICC Guide is LIVE! ๐ŸŽ‰
Check it out, including the beautiful design work by Neebinnaukzhik Southall! โœจ

The Center of Southwest Studies museum was part of the early contributors and adopters of this important framework. Peek ๐Ÿ‘€ a quote by Amy Cao, Collections Manager & NAGPRA Coordinator on page 82.
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The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is pleased to announce the release of the ๐™„๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ž๐™œ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ช๐™จ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐˜พ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™‚๐™ช๐™ž๐™™๐™š (ICC Guide), a new, freely available resource designed to help museums and collecting institutions put culturally appropriate care of Native collections into practice.

Developed through five years of collaboration among Indigenous and non-Indigenous museum professionals, Tribal representatives, NAGPRA practitioners, and others, the project was led by Laura Bryant, Director of Repatriation at , and Marla Taylor, Curator of Collections at the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology (Phillips Academy), with Laura Elliff Cruz (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) of SAR serving as project manager.

The 20-section guide includes case studies, sample resources, and adaptable tools for institutions of different sizes and capacitiesโ€”all grounded in meaningful consultation and relationships with Indigenous communities.

Download the free ICC Guide and explore accompanying webinars and resources at sarweb.org/iarc/icc.

๐Ÿ‚Our fall event schedule continues next Thursday with a special presentation by artist, ๐ƒ๐š๐ซ๐›๐ฒ ๐‘๐š๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐-๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ญ โœจ ๐Ÿ“… ๐“๐ก๐ฎ...
09/14/2026

๐Ÿ‚Our fall event schedule continues next Thursday with a special presentation by artist, ๐ƒ๐š๐ซ๐›๐ฒ ๐‘๐š๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐-๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ญ โœจ

๐Ÿ“… ๐“๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ | ๐Ÿ”:๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐Œ
๐Ÿ“ Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum (Room 120), Fort Lewis College
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free & Open to All
๐Ÿ‚ Featured event of Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable History Live!

Darby is an award-winning Dinรฉ artist who specializes in digital collage and printmaking to create powerful portraits, landscapes, and abstract forms inspired by and derived from historic Dinรฉ textiles, with particular interest in weavings dating to the late 1800s-1950s. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions, such as ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’›๐’๐’๐’”: ๐‘พ๐’†๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’•๐’˜๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’” ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ซ๐’Š๐’รฉ ๐‘ป๐’†๐’™๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’” at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Santa Fe, NM), ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ญ๐’๐’“๐’„๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐‘พ๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ถ๐’–๐’“ ๐‘ท๐’†๐’๐’‘๐’๐’† at the Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff, AZ), ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’…๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’๐’–๐’” ๐‘ฐ๐’…๐’†๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’•๐’Š๐’†๐’” at the S'edav Va'aki Museum Foundation (Phoenix, AZ), and ๐‘ป๐’Š๐’†๐’“๐’“๐’‚ ๐‘น๐’†๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’…๐’‚๐’”: ๐‘ด๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’“๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ at the ASU Art Museum.

โžก You can check out Darby's oversized digital collage, ๐‘พ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’ ๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’”๐’„๐’‚๐’‘๐’†: ๐‘ป๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’‚๐’• ๐‘ป๐’”๐’†ฬ ๐‘ฉ๐’Š๐’•โ€™ ๐’‚โ€™๐’Šฬ is on view in our current exhibition, ๐‘ช๐’๐’๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’† through Dec. 18.
Fort Lewis College
FLC Native American Center
Fort Lewis College Art Gallery
Durango Creative District
Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable
Four Corners Museum Network
Four Corners Lecture Series
What's Happening Durango

โœจ Join us next week for an evening with National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Scott Graham!๐Ÿ“… ๐–๐ž๐๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ...
08/28/2026

โœจ Join us next week for an evening with National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Scott Graham!

๐Ÿ“… ๐–๐ž๐๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ | ๐Ÿ”:๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ ๐๐Œ
๐Ÿ“ Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum (Room 120), Fort Lewis College
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free & Open to All
๐Ÿ”— https://tinyurl.com/scott-graham

Scott will take audiences behind the scenes of his acclaimed National Park Mystery Series, published by the environmental and social justice-focused Torrey House Press. He'll discuss his writing process, the inspiration behind the series, and how the landscapes of the American West shape his stories.

Newly released book ten in the series is ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’• ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ซ๐’–๐’๐’†๐’” ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’”๐’”๐’‚๐’„๐’“๐’†, set in southern Coloradoโ€™s San Luis Valley. Book nine in the series, ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ฝ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’š ๐‘ซ๐’–๐’†๐’, was a finalist for the 2025 Colorado Book Award. It features a villainous ultra-trail race across the Mojave Desert based in part on the annual Hardrock 100 ultra-trail race in Silverton.

Scott is based in Durango and, in addition to a thriving writing career, is an avid outdoorsman and advocate for public lands. In addition to his mysteries, Scott is the author of five nonfiction books, including ๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’•๐’“๐’†๐’Ž๐’† ๐‘ฒ๐’Š๐’…๐’”, and winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. Scott has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, radio disc jockey, and coal-shoveling fireman on the steam-powered Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

โญ This is a featured event of the 2026 Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable History Live!
Fort Lewis College
Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable
Torrey House Press
Scott Graham
What's Happening Durango

Check out at this stunning textile Cristie wove! Cristie, Curator of Exhibitions & Educational Outreach, attended a week...
08/27/2026

Check out at this stunning textile Cristie wove! Cristie, Curator of Exhibitions & Educational Outreach, attended a week-long immersive workshop to learn more about the region's weaving traditions.

One happy student!!! From Durango Co. Cristie was one exemplary student. Thank you for taking your first weaving class with us!!!

๐Ÿ“ข ๐™€๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐˜พ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃOur August 26th presentation with local author and angler, Shelley Walchak, has been ๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†๐’๐’๐’†๐’… due t...
08/21/2026

๐Ÿ“ข ๐™€๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐˜พ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ
Our August 26th presentation with local author and angler, Shelley Walchak, has been ๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†๐’๐’๐’†๐’… due to unforeseen circumstances. Thank you for your understanding and we will share out once we determine if this event will be rescheduled!

โžก There is a lot to look forward to with our ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ events coming up:
โญ ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐Ÿ, ๐Ÿ”:๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ ๐๐Œ:
Deadly Fun Learning, Mysteries that Champion Our National Parks with local author Scott Graham

โญ ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’, ๐Ÿ”:๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐Œ:
Woven Landscapes with Dinรฉ artist, Darby Raymond-Overstreet

โญ ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—, ๐Ÿ”:๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐Œ:
The Cedar Mesa Perishables Project, presentation and film screening with Zuni fiber artist Christopher Lewis and anthropologist Dr. Laurie Webster
What's Happening Durango
Durango Creative District
Fort Lewis College
Bears Ears Partnership
Torrey House Press
Woven Landscapes: An Artist Talk with Darby Raymond-Overstreet
Durango 9-R Title VI Native American Education
Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable
Four Corners Lecture Series

The Center will be closed this Friday, August 14th! We apologize for any inconveniences, but we will resume our normal s...
08/11/2026

The Center will be closed this Friday, August 14th! We apologize for any inconveniences, but we will resume our normal summer hours on Monday (Gallery: 1-4 PM, Library: By Appointment).

โœจ๐™๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™€๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐˜พ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™งโœจWe have an amazing lineup of programs that will kick-off in late August-November. CSWS events...
08/07/2026

โœจ๐™๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™€๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐˜พ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™งโœจ
We have an amazing lineup of programs that will kick-off in late August-November. CSWS events are always free and open to all. Full details: https://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/exhibits-events/upcoming-events

See you at the Center!
Fort Lewis College
FLC Native American Center
Fort Lewis College Art Gallery
Durango Creative District
What's Happening Durango
Durango 9-R Title VI Native American Education
Scott Graham
Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable
Visit Durango
Four Corners Lecture Series
Herstory Printmaking Collective
Torrey House Press
Bears Ears Partnership
Shelley Walchak
Meranda Roberts

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