Riverton

Job Corps is the latest federal program caught in a tug-of-war between the Trump administration, lawyers, congresspeople and participants.

There will also be a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives march in Riverton on May 4, along with a run and walk on the Wind River Reservation on May 5.

One of this year’s featured guests is Jhane Myers (Comanche/Blackfeet), who was the lead creative producer for the 2022 movie “Prey,” a prequel in the popular sci-fi “Predator” franchise.

A high school student named Stephanie Bearstail died on the Wind River Reservation on Mar. 4. While the cause of her death is still under investigation, people are marching in Riverton this weekend to demand justice.

A Riverton nonprofit recently broke ground on construction for a new community-led hospital. It’ll create more options in the area, especially for soon-to-be mothers.

The new Wind River Cares Dialysis Center in Riverton opened its doors to patients earlier this month. The location aims to address health care shortages for those with kidney disease in a more rural part of the state.

The Federal Communications Commission launched a new missing and endangered persons code for its nationwide Emergency Alert System. It will allow law enforcement to send out messages about missing adults to the public through phones, TV and the radio. The code is part of efforts to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis throughout the country.

How can teachers better support Native students? And how can they more accurately teach about Native history and contemporary cultures to all students? Those questions are at the center of the annual Native American Education Conference, which is back for its fifteenth year. It’ll take place at Central Wyoming College in Riverton on August 6 and 7.

Wind River Pride is hosting a series of events in Lander and Riverton this month to celebrate Pride. Their most recent meetup was a Queers with Quills creative writing night.

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.