Students on the Wind River reservation read and discussed the piece in classes at Fort Washakie Charter High School, and, according to Michael L.

In a car accident at 19 while intoxicated murdered in his 20s struck in the head with an ax not long after graduation.

Someone peered in and, moving his finger along the line of smiling faces, delivered a cruel counterpoint: killed Outside the gym, in a glass trophy case, are photographs of players from recent championship teams. On this night, more than 2,500 cheering, stomping people came to watch. The players, long-limbedĪnd athletic, are among the area’s undisputed stars, and their games one of its few diversions. At a boys’ basketball game here last month, Wyoming Indian High School, a perennial state power, was trading baskets with a local rival. On the front page of The New York Times on Feb.

Go to related article » | Go to related slide show »Īn article by Timothy Williams, “Brutal Crimes Grip an Indian Reservation,” which appeared Matthew Staver for The New York Times A rambling stretch of scrub in central Wyoming the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, Wind River has a crime rate five to seven times the national average and a long history of homicides.