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Originally known as the Shoshone Indian Reservation, the Wind River Indian Reservation was established by agreement of the United States with the Eastern Shoshone Nation at the Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868, restricting the tribe from the formerly vast Shoshone territory of more than 44 million acres (180,000 km 2).
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]
Born in the 1860s, Cotsiogo was a son of Eastern Shoshone leader Washakie. [1] During Cotsiogo's lifetime, the tribe was placed on the Wind River Indian Reservation in the Wyoming Territory, a reservation established by the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868. [2] [3]
USA TODAY goes to Wyoming's Wind River Reservation to hear the challenges and the pride of being Indigenous in America.
Old West Wax Museum, Thermopolis, closed in 2010, displays now at Wind River Heritage Center in Riverton [21] [22] Tecumsah's Old West Miniature Village & Museum, Cody [ 23 ] Wyoming Children's Museum and Nature Center, Laramie, closed in 2010 [ 24 ]
Wind River Indian Reservation on U.S. Route 287 43°00′22″N 108°52′59″W / 43.006111°N 108.883056°W / 43.006111; -108.883056 ( Fort Washakie Historic Fort Washakie
In 1870, Wind River Indian Reservation agent G.W. Fleming stated that Chief Washakie allowed a band of "Toorooreka" Sheepeaters to share in the annual annuity. This likely represents the period when the Wyoming Tukudika merged with the Washakie band of the Eastern Shoshone to reside on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
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 .