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• Who are the Eastern Shoshone?
• Who are the Northern Arapaho?
• How Does Tribal Government Work?
• Preserving the Ways – Culture and Traditions

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Wind River Education

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How did the reservation come to exist? How did two tribes, the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho, come to share the reservation? What are the people on the reservation like?
 

• Parent Guide – 8th Grade
• Lesson Plan 1 – 8th Grade, Northern Arapaho
• Lesson Plan 2 – 8th Grade, Northern Arapaho
• Lesson Plan 3 – 8th Grade, Eastern Shoshone
• Lesson Plan 4 (Short) – 8th Grade, Northern Arapaho
• Lesson Plan 5 (Short) – 4th Grade, Northern Arapaho

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External Resources

• Devil’s Tower
• Bull Lake, from “Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech.” The University of Nebraska Press.
• Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 (Plains Tribes Initial Treaty)
• Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868 (Creation of the Shoshone Indian Reservation and the Northern Arapaho Tribe’s settlement in 1878.)
• Great Sioux Reservation, Treaty of 1868 Map
• Lived History, the Story of the Wind River Virtual Museum
• Medicine Wheel
• “The Petroglyphs of Dinwoody, Wyoming” by David S. Gebhard and Harold A. Cahn.
• Wind River (Video)
• Wind River Reservation, Google Map
• Wind River Indian Reservation Interpretive Plan for the Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho, pp. 19-20, Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
• Wyoming Indian Battles
• “Government of the Wind River Reservation” from Wyoming Blue Book Volume 4, 1991, with updates, Wyoming State Archives

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The Wind River Education Project was funded by the Wyoming Legislature. © 2016-18 KCWC-TV/WyomingPBS

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