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The Wind River Indian Reservation, in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, is shared by two Native American tribes, the Eastern Shoshone (Shoshoni: Gweechoon Deka, meaning: "buffalo eaters") [4] and the Northern Arapaho (Arapaho: hoteiniiciiheheʼ). [5]
"Shoshone at Ft. Washakie, Wyoming Native American reservation. Chief Washakie (at left) extends his right arm." Some of the Shoshones are dancing as the soldiers look on, 1892. Battle Mountain Reservation, Lander County, Nevada. Current reservation population is 165 and total tribal enrollment is 516.
Shoshone encampment in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, photographed by W. H. Jackson, 1870. Shoshone National Forest is named after the Shoshone Indians, who, along with other Native American groups such as the Lakota, Crow and Northern Cheyenne, were the major tribes encountered by the first European explorers into the region.
Bands of Shoshone people were named for their geographic homelands and for their primary food sources. Kuccuntikka or Kuchun-deka (Guchundeka', Kutsindüka, Buffalo Eaters [2] [14]), living on the eastern edges of the Great Basin along the upper Green River Valley, Big Sandy River and Wind River eastward to the Wind River Basin (Shoshone Basin) of western Wyoming and southwestward to Bear Lake ...
Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. ... Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation. Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota ...
The town is named for the Shoshone Indian tribe, most of whom live on the nearby Wind River Indian Reservation.Established as a railroad and mining town, Shoshoni lies at the intersection of U.S. Routes 20 and 26, which together were formerly known as the "Yellowstone Highway". [5]
The headquarters for the Eastern Shoshone Tribe is located in Fort Washakie, as well as the Bureau of Indian Affairs agency for the Wind River Indian Reservation. Fort Washakie is named after nearby Fort Washakie, a U.S. Army post established in 1869 and named after Chief Washakie in 1878. Washakie, Utah is also named for Washakie.
Peiem’s son, and successor, Captain Jim, was a leader of the Boise Shoshone at the time of their removal, March 12-April 13, to the Fort Hall Reservation, which had been established for the Boise and Bruneau Shoshone, June 14, 1867, a mixed Shoshone-Northern Paiute group of Koa'aga'itöka ("Salmon Caught in Traps Eaters") of Northern Paiute ...