The contentious issue of oil and gas pipelines across indigenous lands is the subject of an exhibition opening at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College on Thursday, January 21st. The Museum at the Center of Southwest Studies will hold an opening reception for the new exhibit Thunder in Our Voices from 5:00-7:00 pm that evening. This reception is free and open to the public. Forty years ago, the Dene and Inuvialuit of northern Canada opposed and stopped construction of a gas pipeline that threatened their lands. In 2009, Durango photographer Linda MacCannell revisited those villages. Thunder in Our Voices is the result of that journey. Thunder in our Voices has toured twenty five Dene and Inuvialuit communities and ten universities across Canada. The Center of Southwest Studies is its first stop in the United States. The exhibition runs through May 2016.