About Us

About Wind River Community Alliance

Our Vision

At Wind River Community Alliance, our vision is a thriving, secure, and empowered Greater Wind River Indian Reservation community. We envision Native and Non-Native communities becoming one community, and Native American land, culture, and people past, present, and future acknowledged with respect and gratitude.

Our Team

Cherokee Brown

Director of Operations, Greater Wind River Indian Reservation Community

Kate Jensen

Founder/Director of Operations, Teton County

Board of Directors

Patti Baldes

L'Dawn Olsen

Erika Yerber

OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

We have worked with cultural educators and local art teachers and produced and distributed over 7,000 Art Kits to children Pre-K-12 . Produced locally on the Wind River Indian Reservation. In 2023 we created 23 temporary jobs within the Greater Wind River Indian Reservation Community to assemble and deliver these kits. This was made possible through a grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation.

We collaborate with Greater Wind River Indian Reservation Community mental health leaders on therapeutic art education. We have provided supplies to facilitate art and culture classes.

We have a new community connection building in Riverton, WY. Here we are launching a social enterprise venture creating art and culture kits, jobs, purpose and helping teachers to fulfill the Indian Education for All act. Here we host family, parenting, and community classes, art and cultural education, an artist collective, and workshops.

We facilitate site visits to the Buffalo Conservation Heard to engage Teton County residents with the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative, and the significance of the re-introduction of buffalo to Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. Learn more about this important work.

We have initiated a Native American led Colonial Trauma & Intergenerational Trauma - Mending Relationships In Communities Workshop to engage understanding and promote acknowledgement of Indigenous Peoples present and past engaging community leaders, educators, and residents in education, understanding, acknowledgement, and unity.

We have worked with Teton County elected officials, community leaders, community organizations, and community members to help engage allyship, understanding, collaboration, and acknowledgement between and within communities .

We hosted over forty Native American family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman to attend the screening of the film, WHO SHE IS , in Jackson, WY. We also hosted a community dinner to welcome these family with almost 100 attendees coming together as one Native and Non-Native community.

We have helped to support a trip to the Wyoming Red Dessert with Greater Wind River Indian Reservation Community Members.

We collaborate with and support the work of community organizations and members within the Greater Wind River Indian Reservation Community.

OUR MISSION:

About Wind River Community Alliance

Our Vision

Our Team

by the numbers in 2023

OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

THANK YOU

Our Partners

OUR MISSION:

About Wind River Community Alliance

Our Vision

Our Team

by the numbers in 2023

OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

THANK YOU

Our Partners

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