SOUTHERN UTE RESERVATION — On June 2, the 100th anniversary of the day the United States granted all Native Americans citizenship, tribes in Colorado weren’t actually celebrating.
A committee tasked with handling the future of a former Indigenous boarding school in Grand Junction is considering a plan that would see the property transferred to tribal governments.
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In recent years, more attention has been drawn to the historical wrongs of the federal boarding school era, which was tasked with stripping children of their Tribal identity.
Included in this month’s Rearview was “Snakes in a Box,” a story about Greg Retlewski (Rose Pest Solutions) and a couple of recent snake encounters he had while checking rodent bait stations.
PCT also interviewed Rose’s Karen Gritter, the company’s northernmost service professional, who shared a few of her findings (pictured above)..
“My experience has been that this has been the year for baby rabbits,” Gritter said. “I ve had two accounts in which I ve popped the bait stations open and there they sat. Fortunately, they did not appear to have been eating the bait, but I didn t want them to start either.”