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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In 2020, the state came out with a report analyzing contributing factors in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) movement. This week during the tribal committee meeting before the Wyoming legislature, an update was given by the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center.
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According to the American Community Survey, around 15,000 people are visually impaired in the state of Wyoming.The Wyoming Council for the Blind will be gathering testimonials to bring to the Wyoming legislature in the coming months.
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This year the Biden Administration rolled out the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program (NEVI) to make electric vehicles more commonplace. But for rural places in Wyoming it might be hard to get chargers in places nowhere near an interstate.
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Yellowstone National Park enlisted Indigenous artists and scholars to celebrate the park’s 150th anniversary. Some say it's the start of a journey of healing from some of the park's dark history.
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Sergio Maldonado has been a classroom teacher, a college administrator, and a school board trustee. And as he’s running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he’s been substitute teaching for schools on the Wind River Reservation. Wyoming Public Radio’s Taylar Stagner sat with Maldonado to talk about his thoughts on education in the state. They start off by discussing whether the K-12 system is underfunded.
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The Sioux Chef a.k.a. Sean Sherman is an expert on Indigenous food sovereignty. He’s an Oglala Lakota food activist who wants to Indigenize your dinner plate with sustainable and local products.
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In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote his last work. A year later he would be assassinated. A University of Wyoming led book discussion series wants to contextualize Dr. King’s last piece for Wyomingites.
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On October 11th, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers will be presenting a proposed plan to mitigate probable flood events. Nothing is finalized yet and the city still has to approve the project.