Native American Education, Research, and Cultural Center at UWYO

09/04/2026

Our UW NAERCC Fall Kick Off was filled with good food, laughter, conversations, and resources. It was so exciting to see so many familiar faces back at the Center, but we especially loved welcoming all of the new faces joining our NAERCC family this year! 🤎💛

We were also grateful to have University of Wyoming President Shane Reeves take time out of his busy schedule to join us. President Reeves introduced himself to our students, shared some encouraging words as they begin the semester, and stayed to share a meal and have conversation with our students.

A huge thank you to Reinette & Mary, our Interns and current students who helped set up and organize this big event. We appreciate VP Nycole Courtney, Dean of Students Tyler Crisman, and all of our campus partners and collaborators who came out and joined us. We appreciate the continued support you provide to our UW students and the UW Native Students.🤠🤎💛🤎💛

08/30/2026

If you have any family or friends, bring them to our event!!🥳

Starts at 3:00pm here at the NAERCC!💛🤎💛🤎🤠

You have a chance to win a new pair of Beats Solo 4!🎟️

08/29/2026

Today was officially the last day of Saddle Up for our freshman babies! 🥹🤎💛

Throughout the week, we’ve had the chance to meet them, get to know them a little better, and welcome them into our NAERCC fam bam. We’re so excited to watch them begin their first semester at UW and to support them throughout all the semesters! 🫶🏽

(Not all of our freshmen were included in today’s pictures because they were all busy with their Poke Packs and making new friends!😄)

And the welcoming isn’t over yet! 🎉

We have our Fall Kick-Off this Sunday, August 30th at 3:00 PM at the NAERCC! Come hang out, meet new and returning students, grab some food, and kick off the new school year with us!

We can’t wait to see everyone! 🤎💛

08/26/2026

Building community one lunch, one conversation, and one connection at a time! 📚 Our UW NAERCC staff was excited today to check in & have lunch with some of our new Freshman class and remind them (& they even brought their friends to join): You belong here at UW. 😁 You have all of us here at the Native Center to support you & make your college journey stronger. Keep up the great work, off to a good start! You make us proud. 🪶💪🏽🤠
**Don’t forget: Fall Kick-off at the UW NAERCC coming up on Sunday at 3:00pm!😉

08/23/2026

The UW NAERCC welcomes our newest freshmen students on campus here in Laramie, WY for the week long Saddle Up program. Their smiles and energy they bring is just what we need! Our UW NAERCC staff and current students were able to meet with Heeyei Niitou Monroe-Black, Darion Hereford, Ty Hereford, Mitch C’Hair, Mylee Wadda, Alicia Sanchez, Temiah Kaulaity, Gabriella Headley, Jaylynn Norse, and Ron McElroy. It is so great to see some of our Native American Summer Institute participants become a UW Student! We are looking forward to the semester with all of us together and continue to provide support and always be the “Home away from Home”!
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A special thank you goes to our current Native students for helping our new littles; Daniel Cardenas, Maya Molt, Nolan Smith, Eric Trujillo, and Jaydas BearComesOut!!😝

08/18/2026

We’re excited to be a part of the Wyoming Fringe Festival this Friday (August 21st)! 🎭✨

Join us for What Was Ours / Who She Is, a performance featuring well known powwow dancers Sarah Ortegon HighWalking and Skylar Vann. The performance was adapted and written by Jordan Dresser, with additional writing by Sophie Barksdale, and is co-directed and co-produced by Dr. Cecilia Aragón and Reinette Redbird Curry.

📅 Friday, August 21
🕢 7:30 PM
📍 Gryphon Theatre, Laramie WY

The NAERCC is proud to partner with the UW Department of American Cultural Studies, UW Department of Theatre & Dance, Re-Storying the West, and Wyoming Humanities to help bring this performance to our community.

Come out and support our performers!😃

🎟️ Tickets are available through the QR code on the flyer OR on the Website—> Wyoming Fringe Fest 🎉

07/09/2026

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06/18/2026

The University of Wyoming hosted 32 Native American high school students from the Wind River Reservation and Wyoming, as well as three students from Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, in its residence halls. Students sampled the college experience at UW and participated in cultural activities designed t...

05/15/2026

Congratulations to our University of Wyoming 2026 GRADUATES‼️

We want to give a special thanks to our NAERCC Staff and Intern teams for all of the behind the scenes planning, setting up, etc. Without your help, we wouldn’t have made this possible!🤩

Also another huge THANK YOU to the families, guests, tribal leaders/higher ed, and community who came to support our graduates. Your support means so much to all of us!!🥹

We are so excited to see the path each of our graduates take in their futures!🤠🤎💛🤎💛

05/05/2026

It has been a busy couple weeks here in the NAERCC‼️

But in those busy weeks, something great came out of it:) We had invited a special guest; Sunny Goggles, Director of the White Buffalo Recovery, to come and teach our professional staff and train our NASI/SAGE Peer Mentors and partners Cowboy Coaches in Understanding Historical Resilience and Cultural Healing when working with our Native students!

We are beyond grateful for the information and teachings Sunny had shared with our team!😄

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