Signa McAdams
News InternSigna McAdams is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and from the Wind River Indian Reservation.
As an avid Wyoming Public Radio listener, she seeks to align Indian Country's journalism needs with her unique perspective as a Native woman, mother, sister, and daughter. She works to represent the WRIR with dignity, balance, authenticity, and honesty.
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A new documentary Pure Grit explores the life of an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe and Eastern Shoshone. -
Wind River Reservation residents say they've received good medicine with the delivery of 50 wild bison last month. Wyoming Public Radio's Signa McAdams, an enrolled Eastern Shoshone member, attended the historic event. -
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Last month, Gabby Petito was found dead in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Her case received immense media coverage. That sparked conversations throughout Indian Country regarding missing and murdered Indigenous women's cases and their comparative lack of coverage. -
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on Indigenous communities. Wyoming Public Radio's Signa McAdams spoke to tribal members Patrick Littleshield, Sam HerManyHorses, Fred Hebahand Dean Littleshield at Wyoming's largest powwow, the Eastern Shoshone Indian Days, about what it was like to be at the grounds after a year of lockdown. -
A Little Free Library is going to be installed in Fort Washakie, Wyoming providing the community of all ages more access to books. -
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In 2017, Northern Arapaho tribal members traveled to Carlisle Indian Industrial School to bring home the remains of three children. These children were buried at a cemetery by a school in Pennsylvania. Home From School is a film that documents this journey. Wyoming Public Radio's Signa McAdams sat down with the film's associate producer, Northern Arapaho's Chairman Jordan Dresser, at the film's premiere in Lander. They discussed boarding schools, repatriation and generational trauma.
