Indigenous Peoples of Wyoming

Wyoming is a Delaware Indian word meaning 'mountains and valley alternating".

Tribes and Bands of Wyoming
The following list of American Indians who have lived in Wyoming has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians... and from Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America. Arapaho, Bannock, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crows, Cree, Dakota, Gros Venutreno or Chumashan, Gosiute, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Menominee, Numa, Paiute, Pawnee, Shoshoni, Sioux, Ute (Southern)

Reservations
As identified in the National Atlas of the United States of America, the following reservation name in bold is the only current federally-recognized reservation:

Wind River Reservation -- located in west-central Wyoming; Tribes: Shoshoni and Arapaho

Reference


 * Isaacs. Katherine M., editor. Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. U.S. Data Sourcebook, Volume 11 Appendices. Bureau of Indian Affairs List of American Indian Reservations, Appendix E. Indian Reservations. Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991. (Family History Library book 973 E5o.)

Agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Agencies were created as an administrative division of the federal government to manage Indian affairs with the tribes, to enforce policies, and to assist in maintaining the peace. The names and location of these agencies may have changed, but their purpose remained basically the same. Many of the records of genealogical value were created by these offices.


 * Fort Bridger Agency
 * Red Cloud Agency
 * Shoshone Agency
 * Shoshone and Bannock Agency
 * Upper Platte Agency
 * Wind River Agency, Ft. Washakie, WY, 82514

Reference


 * Hill, Edward E. The Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880: Historical Sketches. Clearwater Publishing Co., Inc., 1974. (Family History Library book 970.1 H551o.)

See Also:
Wyoming_History for a calendar of events

Wyoming_Military Records for a list of forts

Family History Library
The Family History Library has copies of the Wind River Agency files of Wyoming for the years 1881 to 1953. These are detailed records kept by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The original records are at the National Archives—Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) at http://www.archives.gov/rocky-mountain/. Other American Indian records are listed in the subject section of the Family History Library Catalog under the names of the tribes, such as SHOSHONI INDIANS.


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