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Vaccine Rollout Highlights Tribal Health Programs' Strengths Despite Chronic Underfunding

Northern Arapaho ceremonial elder George Moss was the first to be vaccinated against the coronavirus on the Wind River Reservation
Amanda Fehring
Northern Arapaho ceremonial elder George Moss was the first to be vaccinated against the coronavirus on the Wind River Reservation

This is the first in a two-part series about the vaccine rollout in Indian Country. Part two looks at the challenges of vaccinating our region's urban...

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Savannah comes to Wyoming Public Media from NPR’s midday show Here & Now, where her work explored everything from Native peoples’ fraught relationship with American elections to the erosion of press freedoms for tribal media outlets. A proud citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, she’s excited to get to know the people of the Wind River reservation and dig into the stories that matter to them.