WOMEN YOU SHOULD KNOW IN WYOMING: Native American Museum Curator Provides Indigenous Perspective

When Hunter Old Elk moved to the East Coast for college, she felt a bone-deep longing to return home to the Mountain West.

“Something on a molecular level said, ‘You need to be back into the mountains,’” Old Elk recalled. Mount St. Mary’s University was located in Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., and the crowded urban environment and the fast-paced lifestyle were vastly different from her upbringing in Montana.