ELY — Each weekday morning Boyd Graham rises at 4:30 a.m., leaving the Duckwater Shoshone reservation in the vast Railroad Valley to embark on a 150-mile round-trip journey. He’s an unofficial ...

LANDER — The Shoshone language is at the core of Lynette St. Clair’s identity. Growing up, she learned to speak from her grandmother and other family members, and she can recall a time when tribal ...

Language is everything to Lynette St. Clair. "By knowing your language, I feel it makes you more whole," she said. St. Clair has taught the Shoshone language to everyone from grade-school students in ...

In September 2023, the Indigenous Youth Culture and Climate Day camps started with a memorable moment: An elder was saying a prayer in Shoshone. She paused, looked up and said a buffalo had joined to ...

Roberta Rose Wesaw-Engavo, one of the few remaining fluent speakers of the Eastern Shoshone language, died last week. She was 84. Chris Aadland is reporting on the Wind River Reservation for the ...

FORT WASHAKIE - Wilfred Ferris is proud of his heritage as a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. He was born in Lander and is old enough, he says, to remember a time when the language of his elders ...

Shoshone is one of many American Indian languages that is in danger of becoming extinct. But 10 Shoshone high school students from rural Idaho, Utah and Nevada hope to become future guardians of the ...

For the last two weeks Robyn Rofkar has been waking in the cold darkness of 3 a.m., rising early to begin simmering beans or baking blueberry muffins, making sure the 20 Shoshone speakers gathered in ...

Lynette St. Clair is one of the nominees for USA TODAY’s Women of the Year program, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. The program ...