Buffalo bones, skulls and even the relict wallows that buffalo created can still be found around areas of the WRIR. Reverend Roberts, the Episcopal Missionary who spent 66 years with the Shoshone and Arapaho people documented the last buffalo taken within the WRIR by members of either tribe occurred in 1885. Today, the Shoshone Tribe has successfully reintroduced a thriving buffalo herd to their lands thanks to a cooperative effort between the National Wildlife Foundation, US Fish and Wildlife Service and a first-ever, tribal government-to-tribal government bison transfer with the Fort Peck Tribes. Government chipped away at the reservation several times. Ten years later the federal government moved the landless Northern Arapaho Tribe onto the WRIR. In 1868, Shoshone Chief Washakie signed the Fort Bridger Treaty that reserved 3.5 million acres in western Wyoming for the exclusive use of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. They became proficient hunters thus they became fierce warriors. They acquired the horse in 1700 and it completely changed their lifestyles. The Eastern Shoshone are known for their Plains horse culture. Today, they live on the Wind River Indian Reservation with the Northern Arapaho Tribe in central Wyoming. The Eastern Shoshone Tribe lived in the Wind River mountain range and its environs for some 12,000 years.
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