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New numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau show that people in Wyoming reporting to be American Indian in combination with one or more races grew 24%.

In 2010 over 13-thousand people in Wyoming reported American Indian as their only race. However, those who chose multiple races - American Indian in combination with something else – was nearly 19-thousand. That’s up from 15-thousand a decade ago.

Amy Bittner is a senior economist for the state’s economic analysis division, which serves as the lead agency for Wyoming’s state data center program. She says new figures show that the American Indian population is growing.

The American Indian Studies program at the University of Wyoming says that they have contracted architect Johnpaul Jones to develop a proposed American Indian center at U-W.

Jones has worked as lead-consultant for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, as well as numerous other cultural centers, museums and parks.

Judith Antell is Director of American Indian Studies at UW.

"Johnpaul Jones has been asked to come to campus to begin an initial conversation, a first step in this long process. And so the vision at this point is that the center would likely provide many services and house programs certainly beyond American Indian studies."