Fort Lewis’s early history includes being a military fort for eleven years and was then turned into a federal Indian boarding school from 1892 to 1909. It was originally built in Hesperus ...

Colorado’s Fort Lewis College — a former Indian boarding school — names its first Native American president Heather Shotton, a descendant of Native American boarding school survivors, begins ...

Tom Stritikus, the president of Fort Lewis College, on the campus in Durango, Colo., June 11, 2021. A committee there has begun investigating the institution’s past and is studying how to search ...

Chris Neal for CPR News Heather Shotton, the vice president for Diversity Affairs at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., poses for a photo overlooking the campus on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.

FORT LEWIS, WASH. – Lisa Katz Pagel, wife of Thomas Pagel passed away at her residence at Fort Lewis, Wash., on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011 ...