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Dicklyon/Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing on Nov. 16 on a variety of tribal water rights settlement bills, including two that would impact Indigenous communities in the Mountain West. -
Rocky Mountain Tribal Leadership Council/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. -
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.
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Nevada tribes are suing Elko County officials, claiming unequal voting access for the 2022 election.
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A new study shows that a large number of Native American households in the Mountain West lack indoor plumbing.
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The park’s indigenous skills day is a celebration — with live demonstrations — of what is known about the people known as the Fremont Indians.
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Preliminary estimates show that the life expectancy of newborns is still declining in the U.S., from 77 in 2020 to 76 last year. A main driver is COVID-19. However, life expectancy decreased much more for American Indians and Alaskan Natives, who had a life expectancy of 65 last year.
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Netflix and IllumiNative have launched a training program for Indigenous film producers that aims to increase Native representation in Hollywood. Its first cohort of fellows includes Ashley Browning, who is from the pueblos of Pojoaque and Santa Clara in New Mexico.
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Over the next year, History Colorado, a nonprofit and an agency under the state’s department of higher education, will investigate the experiences, abuse and deaths of students at the former Fort Lewis Indian School near Durango.
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Yellowstone Revealed was planned for and by Indigenous people. The week will include guided tours of Indigenously significant areas in the park as well as art and live musical performances. Yellowstone National Park is helping host the event for its 150th anniversary.
