It’s not every day you get to apply your language skills to a newly discovered dinosaur species.

But middle school students in the Fremont County School District on the Wind River Reservation did just that, working with tribal elders last spring to come up with a Shoshone name for the species, which was unearthed outside Dubois. (The name can’t be revealed since research about the discovery hasn’t been released.)

Tribal leaders in Wyoming and the ACLU are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a longstanding law that keeps Native American children with Native American families when they come up for adoption or foster care.

Forty-one geographic features across Wyoming are being renamed as part of a federal initiative to eliminate a term that has been used as an ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women.