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Fort Washakie (Arapaho: Ce'eyeino'oowu') is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States, within the Wind River Indian Reservation and along U.S. Route 287. The population was 1,759 at the 2010 census .
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Wind River Indian Reservation, Fort Washakie, Fremont County, WY: HAER No. WY-95, "Wind River Irrigation Project", 21 data pages; HAER No. WY-95-A, "Wind River Irrigation Project, Coolidge Canal Trout Creek Crossing Structure", 7 photos, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page
Wind River Tribal College, or WRTC, is a tribally chartered college located in Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The campus is on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming. WRTC serves residents of the Wind River Indian Reservation and surrounding communities.
Fluent in English and a friend and father-in-law of Jim Bridger, Washakie championed the establishment of the Wind River Indian Reservation through negotiations at the 1863 and 1868 treaties at Fort Bridger. [7] After the reservation period, the Eastern Shoshone saw the arrival of Northern Arapaho on the Wind River Indian Reservation in 1878. [8]
Fort Washakie was a U.S. Army fort in what is now the U.S. state of Wyoming.The fort was established in 1869 and named Camp Augur after General Christopher C. Augur, commander of the Department of the Platte. [2]
HPAIRI facilitates a wide variety of partnerships between the University of Wyoming and the tribes of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Fort Washakie, Wyoming [2] “to work together in ways that empower tribes, nurture innovation for American Indian sustainability, and demonstrate respect for Native peoples’ cultures, traditions, laws ...
Shoshone-Episcopal Mission (also known as Shoshone-Episcopal Mission School for Shoshone Girls) is a historic mission and school in Fort Washakie, Wyoming.The school was built from 1889 to 1890 by Rev. John Roberts, the minister and teacher on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
Washakie emerged victorious and displayed his enemy's heart on a lance. [6] This event is memorialized in the place name of Crowheart Butte on the Wind River Indian Reservation, though the actual battle took place along a nearby draw. In 2005 a sculpture of the event was unveiled at the University of Wyoming's Washakie Dining Center in Laramie.