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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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-