Wind River Indian Reservation

The Wind River Indian Reservation is a place in Wyoming in the United States where Native Americans live. Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho live there. It is the seventh largest reservation in the United States. Wind River is 2.2 million acres in size.^[1]^[2]

Wind River Reservation was started in 1868 for the Eastern Shoshone. The Arapaho came later. The Arapaho tried to get along with whites and help the government, so sometimes the government gave them more land or help, even though that was not always legal.^[3]

Fort Washakie is in Wind River. Before 1868, it was called Fort Brown. The Buffalo Soldiers were stationed there. Sacagawea, the woman who went with Lewis and Clark is buried there.^[1]

Some of the powwows at Wind River are open to the public. There are many museums and cultural centers.^[1]

Wind River Indian Reservation Media

Territory of Wind River Reservation
Washakie, a Shoshoni chief holding a catlinite pipe.
Chief Black Coal, among the most influential Arapaho chiefs of his time. Chief Black Coal was able to largely keep the Arapaho at peace with the United States during the Great Sioux War of 1876. He served as a U.S. Army scout and helped the tribe find a home on Wind River.
Greater Sage-Grouse on Wind River Reservation
Bad Teeth, his unidentified female partner, and other residents of Wind River appeared in the 1923 production of a Zane Grey film, The Thundering Herd. Bad Teeth also appeared in MGM's 1926 War Paint. (Motion Picture Classic, 1925)
Sunset with tepees on the Wind River Indian Reservation
Flag of the Northern Arapaho tribe