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Wyoming Caucus Delegates

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LANDER, Wyo. – Wyoming held Democratic caucuses on Saturday, March 8. One caucus site was in Lander, a town on the border of the Wind River Indian Reservation, home of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. More than 500 people attended the caucus.

Tetona Dunlap, who edited the video, is a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. She graduated from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., with a B.A. in journalism in 2004. Dunlap works at The Kansas City Star as a photographer and videographer.

Jordan Dresser, Northern Arapaho, is a senior at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. He is a graduate of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute and a Chips Quinn Scholar. Dresser has had summer internships as a reporter at the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star, the Fargo (N.D.) Forum and the Salt Lake City Tribune under the Chips Quinn Scholars Program. This summer, he will intern as a feature reporter at The Denver Post.

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I just want to applaud Jordan and Tetona for a really good online story about the Wyoming Caucuses. Sandra Beasley Unenrolled Cherokee Non Freedman African American White

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That was a great commentary by Natives for Natives. As the Native American Club President at Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada, I listened to the members say that their vote doesn't matter because they weren't educated about the voting process. We finally attended a "mock caucus" as a club the day before the caucus.
About 3/4 of the members attended the local caucus, more educated and more willing to accept their voting responsibilities.
So thank you Jordan and Tetona for your insight and ideas on educating the Native voters.

Victoria Jackson-Dick

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