Alamosa Daily Digest Sunday, September 27, 2026
Ty's Take
That's a hefty subtitle for whatever story ran beneath it, and around here it lands different than it might anywhere else. The San Luis Valley's been holding all those threads together for longer than most of this country's been a country, back when "freedom" meant something closer to survival on high desert, when "land" wasn't an abstraction but the reason your family ate, when "kinship" kept you alive through winters that still crack the thermometer at 40 below. We've got military service running deep in these communities, military families who understand sacrifice in a way that doesn't require explaining. If the story underneath that subtitle is wrestling with what those words actually mean here, in this particular soil and at this particular altitude, then somebody's doing the work worth doing. That's the kind of local history that matters.
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Valley Courier
‘Where histories of freedom, land, kinship, military service and survival meet’
Two scholars with deep ties to Afro-Indigenous history will discuss Black and Native American solidarity at the Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center on October 3. Kyle T. Mays, chair of African American Studies at UCLA, and Johnny T. Valdez, a Southern Ute leader and descendant of Buffalo...
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