Eastern Shoshone

The Wind River Promise Fund sets aside $250,000 to cover undergrad tuition costs and mandatory fees for full-time students. Another $2 million will be managed and invested like an endowment.

The film’s producers are using this recognition to ask people to reach out to their representatives to make the Not Invisible Act Commission report available after it was taken offline by the Trump administration.

Co-producers Lynette St. Clair and Jordan Dresser share a behind-the-scenes look into “Generation Warrior.” The film premieres at Central Wyoming College in Riverton on the evening of Tuesday, June 24.

Earlier this year, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe reclassified bison from being livestock to wildlife. On Thursday, Colorado’s governor signed the Protect Wild Bison bill, which creates a dual wildlife and livestock designation.

With a $2 million construction grant currently on hold, Energize Wind River is searching for other funding sources to make solar a reality for some Eastern Shoshone homes.

Paleontologists collaborated with members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe to honor the fact that the dinosaur was found on the tribe’s ancestral lands. We hear how the project braided together two different ways of knowing from an Eastern Shoshone elder and a research scientist.

Leaders on the Wind River Reservation are encouraging tribal members to carry some sort of identification with them. That comes in response to ramped-up efforts to enforce immigration policy under the Trump administration.

Other avenues to change the monument’s name are on hold while Congress considers the bill.

Jacqueline White is Northern Arapaho and the tribal relations specialist for the Food Bank of Wyoming. Her passion: increasing access to traditional foods. From White’s perspective, this goal is possible because of collaboration.

The U.S. Forest Service is spending another $20 million to remove flammable underbrush and logs from forests to reduce wildfire risk. Some of the funding will be used to turn that chopped timber into firewood for Indigenous families in parts of the Mountain West to heat their homes.