#wind river reservation

[thoughtportal]

oil pipeline leak on Wind River Reservation

every article I could find about this incident all seemed to quote the same press release from the oil company word for word.

[brooklynmuseum]

By 1900, when this hide was painted, Cotsiogo’s Eastern Shoshone band was confined to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and the artist turned to the tourist economy as a means of support. This nostalgic work harks back to pre-reservation times with scenes of the Wolf and Sun Dances, a buffalo hunt, women butchering buffalo, and warriors on horseback returning to camp. Prior to the 1860s, when Native people were forced onto reservations by the U.S. government so white settlers could occupy tribal lands, the vast Shoshone territory encompassed what is now southeastern California, central and eastern Nevada, northwestern Utah, southern Idaho, and western Wyoming.

See it in our recently reinstalled spaces American Art galleries that explore the diversity, changing perceptions, and narratives that define this land and its histories.

Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody) (Shoshone, 1866-1912). Painted Elk Hide Robe, ca. 1900. Elk hide, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 64.13. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.13_detail_edited_SL1.jpg)

[dendroica]

Rock face on the Wind River Reservation (via USFWS Mountain-Prairie)

Photo by Angela Burgess, USFWS.

[blog-mcc]

A Sense of Place for Grand Teton Tribal Youth Crews

September 2019

Jackie Cragen was in the midst of her third term as a Youth Crew Leader for MCC when she led her first of two Grand Teton Tribal Youth Crews in Grand Teton National Park. The crews consisted of youth from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, who would spend 30 days camping in the park, engaging in conservation projects, leadership development and team building activities, as well as lessons taught by the Park’s educational department.  

“I’m not sure I could’ve been stationed so far away from the regional office in Bozeman my first year as a YCL,” Jackie said. “But because of my experience with the Leadership Development Program and all the youth crews I’d led before, I was up for the challenge.”

Brandishing a positive attitude and an adaptive leadership style proved to be a winning combination for Jackie. Most of the members of the Grand Teton Tribal Youth crew had never spent any time away from home or been around non-native people. Crew members were deeply connected to their families. Overcoming homesickness and adjusting to crew life was an ongoing process. Jackie and her co-leader quickly learned that lectured lessons and demanding the completion of tasks simply would not work.

“If we wanted to get something accomplished, we learned to be conversational about it,” Jackie said. “The same went for our project partners. We wouldn’t say, ‘You need to do this.’ Instead, we would say, ‘I’m asking you to do this because I need your help, because I value and appreciate your contribution.”

Subtle adjustments in their leadership style brought major developments within the Park and the crew members themselves. Daily project work included building an eight-foot long log bridge near Moose Ponds, brushing trails, digging a new trail at Grand View Point, and constructing a steep 19-check-step staircase at Schwabacher Landing. The crew relished in walking up and down their newly created staircase or hiking freshly dug trail. They were excited that Park visitors would enjoy their hard work. MCC’s Grand Teton project partners were thrilled with the crews’ accomplishments.

“One project partner told us we completed more than she expected; more than the crews had completed in the past.”

As they grew more comfortable, the crew members opened up to their leaders. They began to feel a sense of place within the park and expressed a desire to implement Leave No Trace policies based on the MCC CORE lessons led by Jackie and her co-leader. Grand Teton’s educational department made sure to introduce the crew to every indigenous person working in the Park. Interpretive rangers taught the crews about geology, macro-invertebrates, and water quality, and the native youth found themselves genuinely interested in careers in conservation and land management.

Perhaps the height of the experience was the opportunity for each member to spend an entire day career-shadowing. Crew members were allowed to pick from any job in the park; one member cruised around in an ambulance, one followed a water quality specialist, and a few spent the day hanging out in the National Park Foundation office.

When the 30 days came to an end, Jackie recognized growth in each individual member. On their exit surveys, the youth wrote that they felt more open minded and curious about other cultures and backgrounds. And as for the homesickness? “Every single one of them wants to come back," Jackie said. "They kept asking, 'Is there a limit to the number of times I can do this?' One girl eventually wants to lead the Teton Crew.”

“I loved leading them, but that’s what I hope for, that someday MCC’s Native Programs will be led by Native Leaders. I hope it’s some of the youth from my crews.”

[nathancmartin]

Mama and baby

Near Ft. Washakie, Wyoming

[nathancmartin]

Sacajawea’s grave. Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. 

Polaroid by @hahaclark.

[nativebiz]

Senator Barrasso to Chair Reservation Drug Hearing

Senator Barrasso to Chair Reservation Drug Hearing

WYOMING – U.S. Senator John Barrasso will be chairing a congressional hearing on the Wind River Reservation at the end of March that will bring tribal officials and law enforcement together to testify on drugs use on the reservation and different methods to curb use.

The Wind River Reservation was one of four reservations chosen for a law enforcement surge pilot program in 2010 and 2012 to combat…

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[fairy-type-islander]

If I see one more post about the settlement on the WR reservation and some fucking dick remark about how the natives, "should save the money for once" I will freak out. Monthly checks and settlements aren't going to end the poverty. Fuck you.