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Tribal Councils Make Slow Progress Toward Gender Equality

KUNM | By Savannah Maher
Published December 9, 2020 at 12:42 PM MST
Silver Little Eagle, 23, is sworn in, alongside six other women, to the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council in November.
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Silver Little Eagle, 23, is sworn in, alongside six other women, to the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council in November.

Karen Snyder has never been afraid to use her voice. She learned that from the women who raised her on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. "I come...

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Savannah Maher
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.
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