| Exhibits:
1999-2000 | 2001-2002
| 2003-2004
From Trout
Creek to Gravy High: The Boarding School Experience
 This
exhibit is part of the Shoshone Episcopal Mission’s
Warm Valley Historical Project (1991-1993), funded by the
National Endowment for the Humanities. From Trout Creek
to Gravy High examines the boarding school experience at
the three mission schools established on the Wind River
Indian Reservation: the Shoshone Episcopal Girls’ School
(“Roberts’ Mission”), St. Michael’s,
St. Steven’s and at the Reservation’s Government
boarding school. The latter originated on Trout Creek at
Wind River Agency and was later moved near the Washakie
Hot Springs on the road between Fort Washakie and Ethete.
Project participants interviewed Shoshone and Arapahoe Elders
who had attended these schools. The purpose was to compare
and contrast the experience at all four schools. In addition
to collecting oral histories, the project located, restored
and preserved historical photographs. These two components
were combined in a traveling exhibit featured in museums
and schools throughout Wyoming, at the Shohsone/Bannock
Tribal Museum, Fort Hall, Idaho and Fort Collins, Colorado.
These materials have been adapted for the on-line exhibit:
From Trout
Creek to Gravy High: The Boarding School Experience.
A short video based on this project can be purchased through
our store. GO>>
Hultkrantz Photographic
Collection
 The
photographs in this collection are used with the permission
of Dr. Ake Hultkrantz, retired professor of religion at
the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Taken by Prof. Hultkrantz
during the years he conducted field work on the Wind River
Indian Reservation in Wyoming, between in 1948 and 1958,
they reflect his early and enduring interest in Native American
religion. Today, Prof. Hultkrantz is recognized as a world
authority on shamanism. GO
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Through the
Eyes of Tsutukwanah: The Reservation Shoshone
 This
exhibit is part of the Shoshone Episcopal Mission’s
Warm Valley Historical Project (1991-3), funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities. (Fort Washakie, Wyoming) The
Project collected oral histories and historical photographs
dealing with cultural transitions in the early reservation
period on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Exhibit images
are interpreted by short explanatory texts and excerpts
from interviews with Shoshone Elders. These materials have
been adaptede for the on-line exhibit: Tsutukwanah:
A Photographic History of the Reservation Shoshone, 1868-1945.
A short video based on this project can be purchased through
our store. GO>>
Echoes from
the Valley Floor: Wyoming "Dinwoody" Petroglyphs
 Dinwoody
petroglyphs are only found in central Wyoming. They range
from sites in the Wind River Mountains that are 7500 feet
in elevation to sites that are several thousand feet lower
in the Thermopolis region. Some sites are very large, containing
hundreds of petroglyphs that are found over an area of three
or four miles and other sites are small with just two or
three petroglyphs. Some Dinwoody petroglyphs are only a
few hundred years old, but others were made more than 3000
years ago. GO>>
Master Engineers:
A shoshone Sheep Trap
 One
of the more interesting artifacts housed in the museum is
a life-sized replica of a sheep trap made by the Mountain
Shoshone or “Sheep Eater” Indians. Used to capture
and harvest the wild big horn sheep of northwest Wyoming,
there are over fifteen such traps in the immediate area
around Dubois. Sheep were run through a series of drive
lines and funneled into a trap made of logs and rock designed
to blend into the rugged mountain terrain. The sides of
the trap slopped inward to discourage the sheep from escaping.
Once inside the trap, the animals could be easily clubbed.
Available for study and viewing at the center, the trap
is the subject of an illustrated, online article, The
Master Engineers.  GO>>
Exhibits: 1999-2000 | 2001-2002
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