Indigenous people

The money would have gone to compensating tribal representatives for their work to better tell the story of Indigenous people in the area.

New Mexico lawmakers have passed a bill to create an alert system for missing Indigenous people, a growing trend in the Mountain West region.

“Who She Is” is part of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person (MMIP) Taskforce efforts to spread awareness on the issue in Wyoming. The film hopes to tell a more intimate story about the lives of three Indigenous women who either went missing or were murdered.

Imprisonment rates are markedly higher in communities of color across the U.S., according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit group that advocates for criminal justice reform. And its work to spotlight what it calls “the geography of mass incarceration” has recently focused on parts of the Mountain West.

Buffalo on the Wind River Indian Reservation have given birth, setting plans into motion to build a better environment for their future.In the Eastern…

Wyoming's U.S. Sen. John Barrasso voiced opposition to Deb Haaland during last week's confirmation hearing for secretary of the interior. During the…

Nicole Wagon knew something was wrong days before she would get the news."I didn't feel good. I didn't feel good for those couple days. And what can I…