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1. Doing chores in kitchen at the Government School – matron standing in the background

2. Feeding chickens at the Government School

3. Lilian Hereford (older girl)

4. Student fair at the Government School

5. Shop class at the Government School, 1940s

6. Shop class at the Government School – building project

7. Government School – fair day?

8. Government School fair day

9. Caste of Hiawatha school play (St. Michael’s? and/or Government School)

10. Government School Marching Band

11 Shoshone Wolf Dancers, Fort Washakie

12. Barns and corrals at Fort Washakie for distributing government rations, Fort Washakie

13. Government School buildings

14. Government School buildings

15. Government School buildings

16. Government School buildings

17. “Arapaho-Shoshone Indian Council, Fort Washakie, WY

18. Government School building and furnace

19. Arapaho leaders, Goes-In Lodge on left

20. Students eating watermelon in front of Government School

21. Government School building

22. Government School building

23. Government School building

24. Government Building – 4 boys in front

25. Dining Hall interior with students Government School

26. Government School in winter

27. Boys and girls in front of Government School

28. Shoshone girls in front of Robert’s Mission (the Shoshone Episcopal Girl’s School)

29. Shoshone girls in front of Robert’s Mission (white children on left are Rev. Roberts’)

30. Tudy Roberts

31. Arapaho students possibly at Carlisle

32. Chief Yellow Calf – Arapaho

33. Government School Buildings

34. Government School Buildings

35. Marie Washakie with child on back

36. Surveyor

37. Shoshone woman in elk tooth dress sitting in front of wall tent cabin

38. Same location as 37 man standing – note military medals on his jacket

39. Posed picture of Shoshone woman in white buckskin dress by hide stretched on frame

40. Woman with baby in cradleboard

41. Fort Washakie areal or distance view showing location of cattle pens

42. Shoshone Business Council Henry Tyler second from left front row (?), female council member second row

43. Machine shot interior –location not known

44. Indian students drum groups – probably Government School

45. 44. Indian students drum groups – probably Government School

46. Digging irrigation ditches with horses

47. Digging irrigation ditches with horses

48. Woman sitting with crossed arms

49. Shoshone Business Council and BIA Officials

50. Nurses

51. Rev. John Roberts and at Sacajawea Cemetery – dedication of monument donated by Wadsworth

52. Sacajawea cemetery – same event as 51

53. Rev. Sherman Coolidge (Arapaho) with students at the first Government School on Trout Creek

54. Indian man in ceremonial headdress with horns

55. Indian man in war bonnet and beaded breastplate

56. Dancers in regalia standing outside

57. Dancers in regalia either at Lander 4th of July or Cheyenne Frontier Days possibly same event as # 56

58. “Indian Squaw and Lodge, Ft. Washakie, WY” Post card – woman holding horse with traditional saddle in front of tipi, more tipis and wall tents in distant background

59. Man and woman – posed portrait

60. Man in full length war bonnet and rifle – posed shot

61. “Wife of Henry Lee (Arapahoe) J.E. Stimson Cheyenne, Wyo. Copyright 1900

62. “Natgoo / Shoshone Chief J.E. Stimson Cheyenne, Wyo Copyright 1900 in eagle feather headdress, kerchief around neck, vest and tied arm bands

63. “James Tasian (Shoshone) J.E. Stimson Cheyenne, Wyo.” In war bonnet

64. Another Shoshone man in ceremonial headgear with eagle down and moon shell necklace, metal arm bands, 2 strands of beads as a neck choker – “Moobe”

65. “Chief Yellow Calf” portrait with war bonnet

66. Young Indian man or boy in Anglo clothing – studio shot

67. Indian man (seated) and woman (standing) – studio shot

68. Older Indian man and woman both in war bonnets – she is wearing a dress with bugle beads neck yoke

69. Plucking turkeys – Fort Washakie

70. School children, 2 adults and nurse St. Michaels?

71. Indian grouping with adults and children – white children too

72. Indian farmers working fields, toddler in willow structure with young girl standing by her

73. Arapaho students possibly at Carlisle

74. Chief Yellow Calf – Arapaho

75. “ARAPHAOE VILLAGE WYO” tipis – San dance lodge in background

76. Arapahoe leader Black Coal

77. Signing treaty McLaughlin

78. Man standing outside with ceremonial rattle and fan

79. 3 Indian men leaning against a rock

80. Ghost Dancers

81. Ed Farlow

82. Rev. John Roberts and school girls

83. Old Mission Chapel, Ft. Washakie, Wyo – Rev Roberts standing by cabin door (now on Sacajawea Cemetery

84. Shoshone Business Council and representatives– members identified

85. Woman working at KTGC switchboard or radio station

86. Men in field around radio transmitte

87. Man in field with crops and hoe

88. Women by cattle shoot Fort Washakie ration day

89. Train depot at Arapahoe

90. Men and trucks in front of stone Government buildings Fort Washakie

91. 2 Indian girls doing loom work

92. Indian women or girls working mangles in a laundry room

93. Indian school girls in Anglo uniforms Government School

94. Aerial view – Fort Washakie

95. Pole vaulting display Fair day Government School

96. Boys with shovels and sand pile Government School – shop interior

97. “Edmo Le Clair Gen. Custer’s Scout. Enos, Flathead Chief, age 103 Riverton Wyo.”

98. “Dick Washakie” on a horse in white angora chaps

99. Lyman (white man dressed as an Indian on a horse holding bow and arrow – feather headdress)

100. Interior of mattress factory – Arapahoe women

101. Posed studio shot of Indian warrior in full war bonnet with trailer kneeling

102. Two Indians and white man in front of building

103. “Shooting Match”

104. Man with herd of sheep

105. Canvas-sided vehicle drawn by team of 4 horses

106. Indians on horseback – possible Washakie front left

107. Studio shot of Washakie standing with pipe and leaders sitting

108. Washakie sitting on wooden crate

109. Washakie and Ed Farlow

110. Indians on horseback in front of flour mill

111. Washakie funeral with Rev. Roberts in white robes

112. Washakie sitting on porch with white baby on lap

113. Treaty signing or McLaughlin Agreement

114. Washakie and wolf dancers/spectators at Fort

115. Washakie portrait in war bonnet

116. Washakie portrait with pipe blanket and beaded shoulder sash showing morning star

117. “Washakie Indian Chief” informal portrait with loose white hair

118. Washakie portrait with round disc scarf slide

119. Washakie (on horse) and Indian leaders in front of J.K. Moore Store

120. Washakie portrait seated hat on lap informal

121. Washakie at South Pass Camp – saw in hand

122. Washakie seated outside his cabin with white woman looking into tipi – tipi pegs and rocks showing

123. Washakie standing by tree with Agency buildings at Trout Creek in background

124. Washakie standing by tree alone

125. Washakie portrait standing studio shot with rifle and pipe

126. Washakie portrait seated with pipe and war bonnet – round scarf tie formal

127. Washakie seated outside in chair hat in hand

128. Washakie at South Pass camp

129. Washakie on horseback outside his cabin

130. Washakie seated in chair outside gov. buildings

131. Washakie camp at South Pass

132. Washakie seated outside his tipi hat in hand

133. Washakie formal portrait with pipe and war bonnet

134. Indian woman and young child seated – studio portrait

135. Indian woman on horse pulling travois with children in willow “cage”

136. Indian man in army coat

137. “Sho Braves” Wolf Dancers

138. Shoshone Wolf or War Dancers

139. Sham battle before Sun Dance?

140. Horse painted with symbols in front of Sun Dance Lodge

141. Train depot at Arapahoe Train Station

142. Indian women cooking in front of tipis and wall tents

143. Fort Washakie buildings horses and wagon in front

144. 144 Indians and horses in front of J. K. Moore house

145. Duplicate of Washakie and Indians in front of J.K Moore house

146. Shoshone catechist

147. Rational day for beef at Fort Washakie

148. Women gathering entrails – ration day Fort Washakie

149. Meat drying in front of tipis

150. Tents at McLaughlin agreement? Awnings at Sun dance Lodge – See #113

151. Tents at McLaughlin agreement? Awnings at Sun dance Lodge – See #113

152. Shoshone Business Council duplicate

153. Men and threshing equipment

154. Man driving threshing equipment

155. Woman in garden with cabbages

156. Dehorning steer in chute

157. Deer curing in shed

158. Family with dog outside cabin

159. Duplicate boys building Government School

160. Duplicate Marie Washakie with baby

161. Girls at sewing class Government School

162. Man and woman outside of cabin

163. School play – Hiawatha

164. Duplicate man with horn headdress

165. Duplicate of student drum group

166. Log community center

167. Rev. Roberts inside sun Dance Lodge

168. Sun Dance Lodge

169. Sun Dance lodge and dancers

170. Shoshoni women tanning hides

171. Gas station on reservation

172. “Pride of the Tribe” Pioneer Days Lander 4 women on horses with elk tooth dresses and beaded breast collars etc. for horses

173. Interior of Noble Hotel with beadwork on walls and miniature tipi

174. Men on horseback with regalia or costumes for 4th of July parade One with travois

175. Duplicate Washakie with white women by tent

176. Grace Hebard

177. WPA excavation at Dinwoody cave

178. Interior shot of Indian wagon with 2 girls

179. “The Indian Mode of Transportation Pioneer Days Lander Wyo. 1939

180. Indians in regalia and warbonnets outside a cabin

181. Indian craft guild

182. Young sailor

183. Shoshone girls and teacher outside Roberts Mission

184. Rev. Roberts and school girls outside chapel at Roberts’ Mission

185. The building was the first Government Boarding School on trout Creek, then a mortuary, now at Sacajawea Cemetery

186. Boys and Girls outside old Government School on trout Creek – note bars on windows

187. “Arapaho Boys doing Squaw Work”

188. Woman in wagon outside of Government School

189. Roberts’ Mission from a distance note round log structure at far left where students were encouraged to speak their language and practice traditional crafts

190. Rev. Roberts with students outside dormitory building at mission school

191. Rev Roberts, Laura Roberts and Sherman Coolidge outside Roberts Mission

192. School girls at Roberts’ Mission

193. Rev. Roberts and Henry Tyler

194. School girl Government School

195. School girl Government School

196. “Indian School Girls at Indian School Wind River”

197. School boy – eyes closed Government School

198. School boy Government School

199. Boys from Government School at Washakie Plunge with teacher

200. Indian men and children one in Anglo dress one in traditional –peyote rattle. Girl in elk tooth dress

201. Students in military style uniforms in front of the Government School

202. Duplicate dining hall at Government School

203 Beds in boys dormitory St. Michaels

204. Duplicate Girls sewing class government School

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