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CODY, WY - Use any search engine, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West will show up as the top tourist attraction in Cody. Five world-class museums, a research library, experiential exhibits and a Smithsonian Institute affiliation makes this seven-acre campus a must-do on anyoneâs list when they travel to northwest Wyoming.
The museum itself is a testament to history - it was founded as the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association in 1917 by Buffalo Bill Codyâs niece, Mary Jester Allen. And now, for the first time since its beginning, a woman is once again guiding the museumâs path.
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A new exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West focuses on Black cowboys and rodeos:
Eight Seconds: Black Cowboys In America. Wyoming Public Radio s Kamila Kudelska spoke with photographer Ivan McClellan about his work, and the first Black rodeo he went to in Oklahoma.
Ivan McClellan: I got out of my car and saw 2,000 Black cowboys there and I was just enamored of the culture immediately. The way the people dressed. The way that people wore braids, people had long acrylic nails, there was hip hop music playing. Like, it just completely shattered my conceptions of like what a rodeo was, and really expanded my idea of like what Black people can be. So I just got really fascinated with documenting that culture and kept going to rodeos over and over and over again for the next few years.
A Casper-based non-profit, ART 321, is holding its first statewide conference aimed at addressing the health concerns of Wyoming residents through the arts. Wyoming has the highest youth incarceration rate and one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. But the Casper-based nonprofit, ART 321, plans to fight against it using the arts. Wyoming Public Radio s Naina Rao talks with the nonprofit s executive director, Tyler Cessor, about the need for a conference like this right now.
The latest coronavirus relief package includes $20 billion for tribal governments a potentially transformative infusion of cash. But last year s aid roll-out to Indian Country was badly mismanaged and tribal leaders hope the Biden administration has learned from those mistakes. The Mountain West News Bureau s Savannah Maher reports.
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