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Wildlife on the wind: a field biologist's journey and an Indian reservation's renewal

Date

2010

Authors

Smith, Bruce L., author
Utah State University Press, publisher

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Abstract

In the heart of Wyoming sprawls the ancient homeland of the Eastern Shoshone Indians, who were forced by the U.S. government to share a reservation in the Wind River basin and flanking mountain ranges with their historical enemy, the Northern Arapahos. Both tribes lost their sovereign, wide-ranging ways of life and economic dependence on decimated buffalo. Tribal members subsisted on increasingly depleted numbers of other big game—deer, elk, moose, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep. In 1978, the tribal councils petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help them recover their wildlife.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rights Access

Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.

Subject

Shoshoni Indians -- Ethnobiology -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
Arapaho Indians -- Ethnobiology -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
Wildlife management -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
Biology -- Fieldwork -- Wyoming -- Wind River Indian Reservation
Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.)
Smith, Bruce L., 1948-

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