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Native American Education Conference to shine a light on community, collective wisdom and resilienceHow 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.
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Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site is hosting two Native student rangers this summer at the site in the northeast corner of the state. They’re helping highlight how different Indigenous tribes were connected to the area and remain connected today.
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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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Eastern Shoshone tribal member Jason Baldes has received the prestigious Wayfinder Award from the National Geographic Society for his work to restore bison to Indigenous lands. Baldes was one of fifteen global leaders who received the award, as well as the title of National Geographic Explorer this year.
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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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Earlier this year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a data collection project to gather more information about missing and murdered cases involving Native Americans throughout Wyoming. Over a 90-day period, the agency received 35 tips, including four homicide cases and three missing persons cases. They’d all been previously reported to law enforcement and investigated already.
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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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Film event highlights efforts to expand ecotourism through fly fishing on the Wind River ReservationFor the last seven years, Shoshone and Arapaho Fish and Game Director Arthur Lawson has been working to create more economic development and ecotourism on the Wind River Reservation through a bit of an unexpected avenue: fly fishing. Those efforts are the subject of a series of short films that will play at the Center for the Arts in Jackson on June 4.