Giving a Dam: Wyoming Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as the State Proposes Sending it to Outside Irrigators
The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho have long fought for water sovereignty on the Wind River Indian Reservation, but ...
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In Wyoming, tribal protests prevent land transfer — for now
A tiny scrap of land within the bounds of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming has become the center of a heated debate. The roughly 2-acre site is home to the Pilot Butte Power Plant ...
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Wyoming’s resolution transferring federal lands to the state has failed — again
After much debate in the Wyoming Senate, a resolution to transfer wide swaths of federal land to the state failed Monday.
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Wyoming Senators Demand 50 Million Acres of Federal Land. It’s Part of a Coordinated Land-Grab by Western States
As Western lawmakers float a variety of bad ideas for transferring federal lands to states, a group of Wyoming state senators are making a particularly outrageous request of the federal government. On ...
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10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands
Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policies in the 1830s ... About 172,000 acres of Northern Arapaho land is now earmarked for ...
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Wyoming lawmakers kill, revive demand for Grand Teton National Park, other federal lands
JACKSON — On Thursday, Wyoming lawmakers shot down a resolution demanding that the United States government hand about 30 million acres of public land, including Grand Teton National Park ...
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Keep It Public, Wyoming! coalition opposes transfer of public lands
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Committee on Thursday passed Senate Joint Resolution 2, in a 4-1 vote, which demands the U.S. Congress ...