‘The Truth According to Ember’ is a summer rom-com about Native people learning to be their authentic selves.
Taylar Dawn Stagner
Taylar Dawn Stagner is an Arapaho and Shoshone writer and artist living in rural Wyoming. A graduate of the University of Wyoming, she has written for National Public Radio, Grist and High Country News.
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Tribes turn to the U.N. for help intervening in gigantic Arizona wind project
The SunZia transmission line will cut through Indigenous lands in the Southwest.
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The new film ‘Tatanka’ and the many narratives of the buffalo
Oglala Lakota Richard Two Bulls discusses his new project, which documents the restoration of the buffalo and the revival of a language.
Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water
Let’s talk about Indian romance novels
If you’ve ever gawked in disbelief at a hunky white man in redface, this one’s for you.
Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water
Treaty rights, bison and the country’s most controversial hunt
Last winter’s harvest in the Yellowstone region illustrates the complexity of bison restoration.
Posted inJune 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen
Is Harriet Hageman an ally of Indian Country?
The rookie congresswoman says she wants to advance tribal autonomy.
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence
Who gets a say in tribal treaty hunting?
In Wyoming, everybody wants influence over off-rez hunting — and nobody’s happy.
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A climate heist and revenge movie
‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ stands firm in its sympathetic framing of its protagonists, and then asks you to evaluate yourself.
Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward
Jackson as a safe haven in ‘The Last of Us’ is science fiction
Only the extremely wealthy might survive the Apocalypse in today’s western Wyoming town.
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Bringing co-stewardship to Wyoming’s Red Desert
A Q&A with the Indigenous Land Alliance of Wyoming’s Yufna Soldier Wolf.
Posted inOctober 1, 2020: Democracy's Frayed Western Front
Sage advice
The ecological and ethical problems of ‘smudging.’