Eastern Shoshone

Eastern Shoshone
Washakie, (translated as:Shoots the Buffalo Running), Eastern Shoshone chief
Regions with significant populations
 United States ( Wyoming,  Utah)
Languages
Shoshone,[1] English
Religion
Native American Church, Sun Dance,
traditional tribal religion,[2] Christianity, Ghost Dance
Related ethnic groups
other Shoshone people, Comanche
Map of traditional lands of the Eastern Shoshone

Eastern Shoshone are Shoshone who primarily live in Wyoming and in the northeast corner of the Great Basin where Utah, Idaho and Wyoming meet and are in the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People. They lived in the Rocky Mountains during the 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition and adopted Plains horse culture in contrast to Western Shoshone that maintained a Great Basin culture.[3]

The Eastern Shoshone primarily settled on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, after their leader, Washakie signed the Fort Bridger Treaty in 1868.[4]

  1. ^ "Shoshoni." Ethnologue. Retrieved 20 Oct 2013.
  2. ^ Loether, Christopher. "Shoshones." Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. Retrieved 20 Oct 2013.
  3. ^ Shimkin 308
  4. ^ "The Wind River Reservation." The Shoshone Indians. Retrieved 20 Oct 2013.