the bill and killed it merely two days after its introduction to the House. Native American nations Same-sex marriage is recognized on the Wind River Indian Reservation, a Native American reservation shared by the Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho peoples. The first same-sex marriage at the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribal Court in Fort Washakie was registered on November 14, 2014. Arapaho culture has traditionally recognized two-spirit people who were born male but wore women's clothing and were regarded as "esteemed persons with special spiritual powers". They are known as (, plural: ) in the Arapaho language. Many married cisgender men without indication of polygyny. The two-spirit status thus allowed for marriages between two biological males to be performed in the tribe. In the eastern dialect of the Shoshone language, two-spirit people, who "act[ed] like women" and did women's work, are known as (), but unlike the Arapaho hoxúx, they would never marry. Economic impact The Williams Institute estimated in September 2014 that if marriage were extended to same-sex couples in Wyoming, the state would see an economic boost of $2.4 million over the course of three years. This net impact would be the result of savings in expenditures on state means-tested public benefit programs and an increase in state income and sales tax revenue. Demographics and marriage statistics Data from the 2000 U.S. census showed that 807 same-sex couples were living in Wyoming. By 2005, this had increased to 1,044 couples, likely attributed to same-sex couples' growing willingness to disclose their partnerships on government surveys. Same-sex couples lived in all counties of the state and constituted 0.7% of coupled households and 0.4% of all households in the state. Most couples lived in Natrona, Laramie and Fremont counties, but the counties with the highest percentage of same-sex couples were Niobrara (0.69% of all county households) and Fremont (0.65%). Same-sex partners in Wyoming were on average younger than opposite-sex partners, and less likely to be employed. The average and median household incomes of same-sex couples were lower than different-sex couples, and same-sex couples were also far less likely to own a home than opposite-sex partners. 20% of same-sex couples in Wyoming were raising children under the age of 18, with an estimated 501 children living in households headed by same-sex couples in 2005. On October 21, 2015, exactly one year after the ruling in Guzzo v. Mead, the Vital Statistics Services