Show Notes
The hope holds strong in this final episode about the people on the Wind River Reservation.
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Huge thanks to the visionaries of this episode: Jackie White, Kelly Pingree, and Erika Warren-Yarber.
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As always, I’m grateful to my associate producer, Vix Jensen for all her help, to Paul Dreux Smith, for making the music and mixing, and to Pernille Clifforth for illustrating this series. Also big thanks to my project editor, Christina Thyssen, and to Heather Kitching and Jen Alevizos for their help.
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