Tribes call on Trump to 'do right for Indian country,' return federal land within Wind River Reservation's bounds

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The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes have reignited their long-stalled effort to repatriate more than 100 square miles of federal government property within the Wind River Indian Reservation.

Land the tribes are seeking has been designated as excess and unnecessary to the water infrastructure that took it out of tribal hands.

Mostly arid Bureau of Reclamation property west of Boysen Reservoir, the region in question is known as Muddy Ridge — and there’s a decades-long history of the tribes attempting to reacquire the area and classify it instead as tribal lands. Over the course of the summer, the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho