Today in 2026, immigrants are being removed from the U.S. and along with them their voices. Also, we rarely hear from our first residents Native Americans and that is a sad commentary on our difficulty in integrating the vibrant variety of voices that represent our American culture. This paper offers Wyoming Arapaho views about the nonNative news media, i.e., the “white dominated news media,” in order to further our understanding of how news media affect their audiences, in this case the Native people.
In 1993, a team of Arapaho Native Amricans on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, myself and a non-Native colleague included met to conduct a survey of Native views to support an FCC application for their first Native radio station. KWRR 89.5 radio began in 1996 and closed in 2021. (Photo: n Arapaho village on Little Wind River on the Shoshone Reservation. The mix of tents, tipis and wagons suggests the photo may be from the late 1800s. Wyoming State Archives.)
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