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Indigenous People in Wyoming and the West


Wyoming Indian Tribes - Access Genealogy

Cheyenne Indians. The Cheyenne hunted and warred to some extent in the eastern part of Wyoming; were long allied with the Arapaho. Comanche Indians. Before ...

Landmark study on history of horses in American West relies on ...

Indigenous peoples as far north as Wyoming and Idaho may have begun to care for horses by the first half of the 17th century, according to a ...

New CFD Indian Village supports importance of Indigenous people ...

New CFD Indian Village supports importance of Indigenous people in Western culture. Ivy Secrest Wyoming Tribune Eagle · isecrest1. Ivy Secrest.

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) - National Archives

... Indians to give up their lands and move further west onto reservations. In the spring of 1868, a conference was held at Fort Laramie, in ...

Fort Caspar Site History

Wyoming was home to the Shoshone, Crow, Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Utes in the 1840s when wagon after wagon of west-bound emigrants followed the North ...

Horses part of Indigenous cultures longer than Western historians ...

Some historians have assumed that the Comanches travelled from Wyoming to the southern Great Plains (i.e., Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and ...

This Month, We Honor Great Native American Leaders

But in some parts of Wyoming, we are officially recognizing a different holiday: Indigenous Peoples' Day. ... West. Through a series of ...

Native American Population by State 2024

Alaska has the highest relative population of Native Americans, who make up 19.74% of the state's total population, about 145,816 people. Oklahoma has the ...

The reservation system | Native Americans (article) - Khan Academy

The US government forcibly relocated the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) to territories that would become the states ...

State Symbols - Wyoming Secretary of State

The name Wyoming is a contraction of the Native American word mecheweamiing ("at the big plains"), and was first used by the Delaware people as a name for the ...

Wyoming Indian War Battles, Skirmishes & Massacres

As more and more emigrants began to pass through Wyoming on their way west, the Native Americans who called the region home or used it as hunting grounds ...

Visit the Hualapai Indian Reservation Grand Canyon

The Hualapai Indian Tribe is a sovereign nation located in the Western Grand Canyon region of Arizona.

Campbell County History

the Native Americans needed to give up the lands in Northeast Wyoming. Without consulting any of the tribes, the U.S. issued a proclamation on January 31 ...

Native people are overrepresented in state prisons across Mountain ...

In Wyoming, Native people make up just 2% of the state's population but account for 7% of the state's prison population, according to the Prison ...

Explore Sacred Medicine Wheel Wyoming On Your Next Vacation

Today, Native American Indian people and cultures from around the world still cross paths at Medicine Mountain. Native American Indians, representing 81 ...

Plains Indian Sign Language - Wyoming Humanities Council

Wyoming Humanities acknowledges that the land that we serve is the native homeland of people ... tribes of the West, particularly the Great Plains Indian Nations.

States profit from two million acres of land inside reservations, report ...

A green sign that reads "Entering Wind River Indian Reservation" stands in front of. Courtesy of Wyoming Public Media. /. Wyoming Public Media.

Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West - Facebook

The Plains Indian Museum tells the significant story of the lives of Plains Indian peoples, their cultures, traditions, values, and histories.

Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne - Intermountain Histories

The land that became Wyoming was originally the territory of Native peoples. Wyoming's modern Native tribes include the Ute, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Shoshone, and ...

Long before Denver was here, nearly 50 Native American tribes ...

Southern Ute and Ute Mountain are the only two Indian Reservations in Colorado. Tribes of the Great Basin lived in what is now western Colorado, ...