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The Eastern Shoshone Tribe is holding its general election on Oct. 22. Six people are competing for three seats on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council and a dozen people are competing for six seats on the tribe’s Entertainment Committee.
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The Eastern Shoshone Tribe released the official results for the primary election for the Eastern Shoshone Business Council. The top six candidates will advance to the general election on Oct. 22 and compete for three open seats.
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The remains of an Eastern Shoshone boy have been returned to the Wind River Reservation, after more than a hundred years at the Carlisle Indian School cemetery in Pennsylvania.
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About 15 people, including some elders, gathered outside the Shoshone Business Council’s chambers to protest perceived election irregularities. More specifically, protestors had concerns about election judges’ efforts to correct absentee ballots that had the incorrect number of possible candidates to choose from.
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Eastern Shoshone voters say new Business Council must focus on upholding treaties, more transparencyTribal members and families filtered into Rocky Mountain Hall on a stormy weekday to vote in the primary for who should be on the Shoshone Business Council. The SBC facilitates the tribe’s governing body, the General Council.
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State agencies, nonprofits and the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes are teaming up to try and get $17 million in federal funding for wildlife crossings on Highway 26/287 east of Dubois. The hope is to reduce collisions between vehicles and wildlife along an especially dangerous stretch from milepost 58 through 67.
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Many of the 17 candidates for the Eastern Shoshone Business Council discussed the need for more grant writers for the tribe, more support for elders in the community and a tougher stance on non-Native American hunters encroaching on fee lands. Three of the body’s six seats are up for grabs in the primary election on Sept. 17.
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The Select Committee on Tribal Relations is working on a bill draft that would return improperly collected online sales taxes back to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes. The legislative committee discussed the issue at an interim meeting in Fort Washakie on Aug. 26.
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Earlier this year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a data collection project to gather more information about missing and murdered cases involving Native Americans throughout Wyoming. Over a 90-day period, the agency received 35 tips, including four homicide cases and three missing persons cases. They’d all been previously reported to law enforcement and investigated already.
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Earlier this winter, Shoshone elders and younger tribal members gathered at a remote ranch in the Gros Ventre mountains of Western Wyoming. They were there to hunt for elk and learn about the cultural significance of the animal. Throughout the gathering, participants practiced the Shoshone language.