Taylar Stagner
Tribal/Rural BureauTaylar Dawn Stagner is a central Wyoming rural and tribal reporter for Wyoming Public Radio. She has degrees in American Studies, a discipline that interrogates the history and culture of America. She was a Native American Journalist Association Fellow in 2019, and won an Edward R. Murrow Award for her Modern West podcast episode about drag queens in rural spaces in 2021. Stagner is Arapaho and Shoshone.
She lives in Riverton Wyoming, where she grew up on a cattle ranch with her dog. She loves bad films and video games.
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The Riverton Peace Mission's winter clothes drive provided around 50 people with items like coats, sleeping bags, and winter weather gear. It was the first time the Riverton Peace Mission held a clothes drive. Carol Harper helped collect donations and said the recent death of a community member made their group want to take action.
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In the late 1960s an archeological site near Hyattville revealed around 10,000 years of tribal history. That site became an official state archaeological site in 1973. The Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2023.
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This week, a group in Riverton collected warm clothes and blankets after a man who was homeless died earlier this month. The drive highlights the lack of resources for individuals who are homeless during winter.
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Cassie Weed, Epidemiological Data Coordinator at Central Wyoming College, said typically sciences have strayed away from including more personal details of a community, but she said in this series they are going to dig into the more complex needs of tribal communities.
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Degenfelder defeats Democrat Sergio Maldonado, a Northern Arapaho educator from the Wind River Reservation. She said though she has no classroom experience she wants to partner with more Wyoming industries to help the education system.
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Representative Andi LeBeau (D Riverton) of House District 33 lost her seat to Republican Sarah Penn. LeBeau announced on her Facebook page that she had called Penn and conceded the race.
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Federal Supreme Court will hear ICWA arguments on the difference between race and tribal affiliationOn Wednesday, Nov. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments regarding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). ICWA was passed as a direct response to the forced assimilation policies of the federal government. As a result, many Indian children lost connection to their culture because of boarding schools as well as a high number were removed from their families and put into non-Indian homes.
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Are Wyomingites with developmental disabilities getting vaccinated against COVID- 9? We don’t know, but the University of Wyoming’s Institute for Disabilities is looking into it.They want to know why someone with a disability would receive the vaccine or not.
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