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Medicine Lodge Archaeological Site recently opened a new immersive cultural center focused on historic and ongoing Indigenous connections to the area. The state park is in the Bighorn Basin, just north of Hyattville, and is home to a large 750-foot sandstone cliff with hundreds of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs. Archaeological digs have revealed that there’s more than 10,000 years of human history at the site.
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The Eastern Shoshone Tribe debuted a new arbor at their annual powwow in Fort Washakie from June 21 to 23. The wooden structure offers shade for spectators and encircles dancers and singers, and offers room for the event to grow.
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Hundreds of tribal members and others congregated just outside Yellowstone National Park for a ceremony this week to celebrate the recent birth of the rare bison. They say it fulfills a prophecy that goes back two millennia.
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A short film titled “How the Land Remembers Us” premiered at the Mountains of Color Film Festival in Jackson on June 9. The film documents efforts to shine a light on ongoing Indigenous connection to what is now called Yellowstone National Park through the Yellowstone Revealed project, which first took place in 2022 during the park’s 150th anniversary.
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The 2024 Native Youth Olympics were held in Anchorage, Alaska and attracted athletes in the 7th through 12th grades from across the state. They tested their skills in 11 different competitions such as the scissor broad jump, Eskimo stick pull, and one-hand reach.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on June 6 ruled the federal government has been underfunding Native American tribes that run their own health care programs. It’s a victory for tribes in the Mountain West and beyond.
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Culturally-informed care is at the core of the White Buffalo Recovery Center, an outpatient addiction treatment facility in Riverton and on the Wind River Reservation. We take an inside look into how they’re helping tribal members heal, as well as a new program they’re launching this June, which aims to address grief and intergenerational trauma for families.
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State, federal and tribal leaders met in Boulder, Colo. to talk about the Colorado River's next chapter. They don't appear close to an agreement.
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The White Buffalo Recovery Center is a culturally-informed outpatient treatment center that supports Native community members who are recovering from addiction and substance abuse. This June, they’re launching a new version of Mending Broken Hearts, a bimonthly, three-day workshop that provides healing around grief, loss and intergenerational trauma. In the past, the program has been just for adults, but now the workshop is expanding to include the whole family.
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Land-grant universities, like the University of Wyoming (UW), largely got their start on land taken from Native peoples – and many of these schools continue to benefit from those lands today. Recently, some have started free tuition waivers for Native students as a way to acknowledge this history. Members of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes have been advocating for the same to happen at UW.