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Associated Press reporter Ben Neary continues to set the pace for coverage of the Northern Arapaho Tribe’s effort to lawfully practice its traditional religion. Neary is the only reporter in Wyoming producing this kind of timely, detailed coverage on a story of national interest. And with Neary, you get the news straight up; he always separates […]
March 28, 2012
“Two Northern Arapaho men charged in the beating death of John Michael Crispin III were sentenced to prison during separate hearings Monday at the Fremont County Courthouse in Lander.” That was the first sentence of a front page story today in The (Riverton) Ranger. It makes us wonder what the paper would have printed if […]
March 27, 2012
In the wake of a much-criticized New York Times story about Wind River Reservation violence, another big-city newspaper today provided a different view of tribal members from Wind River. See the coverage here.
March 26, 2012
The conventional wisdom holds that mainstream news reporting about American Indians and tribal governments is disproportionately negative. The Score is an attempt to test whether that assumption holds true in Wyoming. To make things simple, we lump stories into three broad categories based on overall story tone and content: “positive,” “negative” and “neutral.” We provide an […]
March 14, 2012
UPDATE: This story by Reuters reporter Laura Zuckerman is hands down the best story on the Web about the Northern Arapaho tribe’s eagle take permits. The reporter nailed the religious angle. She talked to someone at Wind River. She mentioned another pending application for a bald eagle take permit. She even got a little scoop about the tribe’s […]
March 13, 2012
UPDATE: The full version of Ben Neary’s story on the eagle harvest permit is here. The Northern Arapaho tribe made national news today when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted the tribe a permit to harvest two bald eagles for the tribe’s important Sundance gathering. It will be interesting to see how the news media […]
March 11, 2012
Wind River Casino CEO Jim Conrad remarked last week that the reservation casinos have helped break down longstanding prejudices between Indians and non-Indians in the Wind River Valley, according to a report by County 10. “We are all the same in the face of God and we all strive for the same things—our families and […]
March 6, 2012
News reporters were absent from the courtroom last Friday when a Canada-based natural resource extraction company continued its aggressive attack on the jurisdictional reach of the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribal Court. Encana Corporation has asked the federal court in Cheyenne to bar tribal court Chief Judge John St. Clair from hearing a tort lawsuit in […]
March 30, 2012
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