Tribal Sovereignty

Tribal 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.

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.

On Monday, March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a case titled Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe, which revolves around questions of funding for tribally-run health care from the federal Indian Health Service (IHS). The case consolidates arguments from two previous lower circuit cases, titled Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe and Becerra v. Northern Arapaho Tribe.

The Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act was recently signed into law and bans the export of cultural tribal objects. It also increases penalties for stealing and trafficking them.

Cassie Weed, Epidemiological Data Coordinator at Central Wyoming College, said typically sciences have strayed away from including more personal details of a community, but she said in this series they are going to dig into the more complex needs of tribal communities.

Yellowstone National Park enlisted Indigenous artists and scholars to celebrate the park’s 150th anniversary. Some say it's the start of a journey of healing from some of the park's dark history.

Health officials from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes have a new tool to help them improve the health of residents on the Wind River…

Let’s go back--way back--to 1868. The Northern Arapaho tribe has survived not only the Sand Creek Massacre but decades of war with the US Army. They’re an…