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Exhibits: 1999-2000
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Brian Dippie's
Sacagawea Images and Narrative
It is astonishing how much has been written about Sacagawea
given the paucity of hard information on her. There are
few documentary sources apart from the Lewis and Clark journals,
and even the derivation and spelling of her name is at issue.
Should it be Sacajawea, supposedly a Shoshone word meaning
"Boat -Launcher." or should it be Sacagawea, a
Hidatsa word for "Bird Woman"--the commonly accepted
version today? Since attempts at spelling her name in the
journals indicate that the third consonant was hard, it
has also been rendered Sakakawea, the preferred spelling
in North Dakota, just as Sacajawea has been favored in Wyoming,
where the legend persists that she lived to a ripe old age,
dying on the Wind River Shoshone Reservation in 1884 a few
years short of a hundred. This was the romantically-appealing
but historically-suspect position taken by Wyoming historian
Grace Raymond Hebard in her influential 1932 biography Sacajawea–a
position uniformly rejected by modern authorities, who agree
that Sacagawea, the Bird Woman, died in her mid-twenties
in December 1812, six years after the Lewis and Clark Expedition
returned home. Learn
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Chief
Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians
One of the most famous Indians in American history, Chief
Joseph was born in 1840 near the Grand Ronde River in present-day
northeast Oregon. The warm and dry interior of a natural
cave provided a safe place for a family on the move to give
birth to their child. Son of Old Chief Joseph (Tuekakas),
a Cayuse-Umatilla, and Khapkhaponimi, a Nez Perce (pronounced
Nes Purse) woman whose name translates “strong leader
of women,” Young Joseph was named Hinmahtoo-yahlatkekht,
“Thunder Rising over Loftier Mountain Heights.”
The name reflects the place he was born, the life he led,
and the legacy he left behind.
Learn more in this in-depth essay and pictorial written
by by William R. Swagerty, University of the Pacific, Stockton
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Petroglyphs
and Pictographs: Wyoming’s Original Artwork
American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) Exhibition
Catalog
View ten intriguing rock art petroglyphs and pictrographs
from Wyoming. Each image has a detailed description and
interpretation. GO
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Chief Washakie
of the Shoshone
 Photographic
Essay
Chief Washakie (born circa 1804-1810, died 1900) is perhaps
the most famous of all Eastern Shoshone headmen and leaders.
Known for his prowess as both warrior and statesperson,
Washakie played a prominent role in the territorial and
statehood development of Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming.
He hunted and trapped with famous mountain man Jim Bridger,
sat in treaty councils and negotiations with Mormon elder
Brigham Young, and secured the Wind River Reservation as
the homeland of the Eastern Shoshones.
Learn more through
this photo essay
which includes many detailed photographs as well as non-photographic
images of Chief Washakie. GO
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Traditional Art of the Northern
Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone
of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
 More
than most native peoples, little of the material culture
of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone has survived.
What has survivied is scattered across the US or resides
in private collections. An exhibit prduced by the Western
Heritage Center, Billings, Montana, Traditional
Art of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone of the
Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, brings together 24
rare artifacts, including decorated weapons, domestic wares,
and clothing from the Balcom Collection for public viewing.
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The
Sheep Eaters: An essay discussing the anthropology of
the Mountain Shoshone
Exhibits: 1999-2000
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