Taylar Stagner
Tribal Affairs ReporterTaylar Stagner covers tribal affairs for Yellowstone Public Radio. She is Arapaho and Shoshone (descendant) and previously reported for Wyoming Public Radio on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Riverton, Wyoming where she grew up. Stanger was educated at the University of Wyoming and at Bowing Green State University and got her degrees in American Culture Studies.
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A program working to preserve the Crow language received federal Covid relief funding this week that will help build the biggest Crow dictionary to date.
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This fall, the Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Reservation is welcoming it’s first class of nursing students to an expanded four year program. The program is now the nation's only four-year tribal program.
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The Northern Cheyenne reservation is looking to boost their vaccination rates before school starts and the tribal health department estimates fifty percent of tribal members who can get the vaccine have.
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As students gear up for school this fall, a scholarship fund will make it easier for Indigenous students who want to become doctors and dentists to address the national lack of healthcare workers.
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Montana’s American Civil Liberties Union and the Native American Rights Fund filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana on behalf of Montana tribes last week. The lawsuit alleges that requirements to teach Native American history in Montana public schools are not being met.
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The Rocky Boy Buffalo Project received approval for funding last week for labor costs to better manage incoming Yellowstone bison.
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Fort Shaw was a military fort during the late 1800s. A year after the Fort was abandoned by the US military the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School was opened. Indigenous advocates remember sorted family histories and grapple with a new federal initiative to better understand the impact of boarding schools throughout Montana and the U.S.
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This year’s class of Crow reservation rookie firefighters were sent to their first blaze the same day they graduated rookie school.