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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 ...
James Trosper is the current Eastern Shoshone Sun Dance chief. He is widely regarded as “a respected voice on traditional Plains Indian spirituality.” [1] He is Director of the High Plains American Indian Research Institute.
In 1820 Jedidiah Morse estimated the Shoshone population at 60,000 and 20,000 Eastern Shoshone. [11] According to Alexander Ross the Shoshone were on the west side of the Rocky Mountains what the Sioux were on the east side - the most powerful tribe - and he estimated that in 1855 the Shoshone numbered 36,000 people. [ 12 ]
The Shoshone Wolf Dance evolved into the Grass Dance, with men dancers going from having "one or two feathers in their hair to war bonnets with long streamers and feather bustles". [3] Depictions of the Wolf Dance were quickly replaced by the Sun Dance, Grass Dance, and buffalo hunts. Cotsiogo, who sold his paintings to white tourists visiting ...
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).
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.
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She is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation and a Northern Arapaho descendant. [2] [3] Her work has been presented at the Denver Art Museum, and she danced at the opening of Jeffrey Gibson's installation at the 60th Venice Biennale, in which she was also the subject of video art by Gibson. [4] [5]