 “So, I think that process really begins with education and some of the other partnerships that the University of Wyoming is providing to the Wind River Reservation.”

When Trosper's nephew Stallone Trosper was murdered in 2015 by a City of Riverton employee in a substance abuse treatment center, Trosper led ceremonies to bring the family together.In a public statement, he tried to make sense of the tragedy, putting it in the context of racial tensions in a reservation border town that sits squarely in the Wind River Indian Reservation and the Shoshone homeland