Native American issues have made Wyoming headlines this year, whether it’s news about repatriation efforts to return hair samples of Shoshone and Arapaho people from a university museum or state legislation’s attempts to create an alert system that could help Indigenous people who go missing.

As the last state to enact laws against human trafficking in 2013, Wyoming was slow to come to the table. But in recent years, the state has stepped up efforts to assess the scope of the problem, as well as address the escalating violence against Native American women and children.