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Taylar Stagner/Back in December, a Riverton man’s death prompted conversations about resources for the unhoused population in Fremont County. Wyoming Public Radio’s Taylar Stagner found that that tragedy galvanized the community to come together and talk about how to fix the problem. Stagner attended the summit for Our Unhoused Neighbors in mid-March. -
Alan O'HashiOn November 29, 1864, Colorado’s third cavalry descended on a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, mostly women, children and elders. The massacre that ensued is often considered one of the worst in U.S. history. Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper has apologized for the massacre, but the Northern Arapaho tribe is now negotiating with the City of Boulder for other reparations: some land where the troops trained. Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards spoke with Alan O’Hashi, a documentary filmmaker who just released a film about the negotiations.
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An Indigenous professor is conducting a national study to learn more about the housing experiences of millions of American Indian and Alaska Native people living in urban areas. -
For the last few years, Wyoming Public Radio has been producing a podcast that tells long form narrative stories for and about Westerners. It’s called The Modern West and we’ll be rolling out the sixth season of the podcast in the coming weeks. Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska sat down with the host and producer of the show, Melodie Edwards, to hear what she’s up to this time around.
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As R&B artist Babyface sings “America the Beautiful” at the 2023 Super Bowl, he’ll be accompanied by a group of sign language performers. One will use a mix of American and North American Indian sign languages.
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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.
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Jordan Dresser was on the Northern Arapaho Business Council as chairman for two years. He has developed quite the resume. He was appointed to a federal solutions committee, named one of the young leaders in Indian Country at large, and he’s a filmmaker. However, he was not reelected to the council. Wyoming Public Radio’s Taylar Stagner caught up with Dresser in a Lander coffee shop to find out what’s next for him.
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The Peabody Museum at Harvard University has a collection of hair samples taken from Indigenous people. Much of the collection is from Indigenous children who were forced to attend Indian boarding schools. The collection has samples from both Arapaho and Shoshone peoples.
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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.
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In order to increase the number of Indigenous principals in Native communities and in public schools, a program called POLLEN is meeting teachers halfway by covering many of the costs.
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Mary Louise Defender-Wilson, a Hidatsa/Dakotah woman who was crowned Miss Indian America 1953, is featured on the Glass City River Wall, a recently finished mural in Toledo, OH that depicts several Native American women and children. The Miss Indian America Collective is still active in the Sheridan community today, decades after the pageant was discontinued.
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In 2020, the state came out with a report analyzing contributing factors in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) movement. This week during the tribal committee meeting before the Wyoming legislature, an update was given by the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center.
