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Jun

Tetona Dunlap – Wyoming Indian High track and field standout Caleb Her Many Horses sets record

   Posted by: admin    in Eastern Shoshone, Native sports, Northern Arapaho, Sports, Wind River Reservation

Wyoming Indian senior Caleb Her Many Horses finished first overall in the 2A Boys 1600 meter run Saturday afternoon at the Wyoming State Track and Field Championships earlier in May. (Tim Kupsick/Casper Star-Tribune)

Wyoming Indian senior Caleb Her Many Horses finished first overall in the 2A Boys 1600 meter run Saturday afternoon at the Wyoming State Track and Field Championships earlier in May. (Tim Kupsick/Casper Star-Tribune)


Tetona Dunlap is a graduate student in journalism at the University of Montana. She is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Earlier this year, she wrote here about the successes on and off the track of Wyoming Indian High School’s Caleb Her Many Horses. Today, she brings us an update:

Caleb Her Many Horses, a senior at Wyoming Indian High School on the Wind River Reservation, won four events, at the recent Wyoming High School Class 2A Track and Field Championships in Casper, Wyoming.

Her Many Horses set a new class record with a time of 9 minutes and 38.85 seconds when he ran the anchor leg for the winning 3,200-meter relay team, which included teammates Alvin Spoonhunter, Marlin Medicine Horse and Slade Spoonhunter.

Her Many Horses won also won the 1600, 3200 and the 800-meter run with a state best meet time of 1:58:34. Teammate Slade Spoonhunter came in third in the 3200 and second in the 800-meter races.

Slade also placed third in the 400-meter dash and Lorenzo Underwood took eighth. Alvin Spoonhunter took sixth in the 1600-meter and Medicine Horse placed eighth in the 3200-meter run.

Combined the Wyoming Indian men’s track and field team rallied 70 points and placed third at the state meet.

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Mar

Tetona Dunlap – Athlete’s success on the track and in the classroom counterpoint to problems facing Indian Country

   Posted by: admin    in Eastern Shoshone, Native sports, Tetona Dunlap, Wind River Reservation

Wyoming Indian teammates Slade Spoonhunter, left, and Caleb Her Many Horses walk together after their second and first-place finishes, respectively, in the boys 2A class of the 2009 Wyoming State High School Cross Country Championships last October. (Dan Cepeda, Casper Star-Tribune)

Wyoming Indian teammates Slade Spoonhunter, left, and Caleb Her Many Horses walk together after their second and first-place finishes, respectively, in the boys 2A class of the 2009 Wyoming State High School Cross Country Championships last October. (Dan Cepeda, Casper Star-Tribune)


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Tetona Dunlap is a graduate student in journalism at the University of Montana. She is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.

Tetona Dunlap

Tetona Dunlap

One of the reasons why I came to graduate school at the University of Montana was to write stories concerning Native American issues. I must admit it is strange learning alongside my peers about issues and problems that I have learned to accept on some levels.

I have recently found myself consumed with the negative. It is disheartening to learn about all the problems facing Native country, even though I have been quite of aware of them for a while.

But after one class period of discussing issues of suicide, alcoholism, teenage pregnancy and drug abuse; I was for a moment uplifted after reading a story in my hometown’s newspaper about Caleb Her Many Horses, a senior at Wyoming Indian High School on the Wind River Reservation.

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