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• Who are the People of the Wind River Reservation?
• 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
• Lesson Plan 6 - 9th-12 Grades, 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.
• The Treaties of Fort Laramie, 1851 and 1868
• The Fort Laramie Treaty 1851
• Coming to Wind River: The Eastern Shoshone Treaties of 1863 and 1868
• Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868
• 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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Native American Veterans

• Lesson Plan 1 - 8th Grade, Eastern Shoshone Veterans
• Lesson Plan 2 - 8th Grade, Northern Arapaho Veterans
• Lesson Pan 3 - 9th-12th Grades, Northern Arapaho Veterans

External Resources

• “The Story of Soldier Wolf”
• Vung Tau Airfield in reference to the story of John Wadda
• Korean War images in reference to the story of Tony Aragon

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Major funding for the Wind River Education Project was provided by the Wyoming Legislature. Additional funding was provided by the Matthew & Virgie Dragicevich Wyoming Foundation Trust. © 2016-21 KCWC-TV/WyomingPBS

9th-12th Grades Standards Mapped to Lesson Plans

8th Grade Standards Mapped to Lesson Plans

3rd-5th Grade Standards Mapped to Lesson Plans

Teacher Bios

If your school blocks YouTube, you can access the Wind River modules here.