Shoshone

So the local story, and just to set the record straight, this isn't the only tribe in the country or the world that have seen little people or the giants, right? I'll lead into that different time.

But I'm saying here, they are notorious For the ancient Shoshone Indians that lived in the mountains.

My friend's grandparents said, don't go to those lakes, Bob.

And so, but John goes, I go.

He was about sixteen years old and had already been once or twice upon the warpath.

When one fall his people were hunting in the Big Horn country, where they might expect trouble at any moment with the hostile crows or Shoshones.

Red Cloud had followed a single buffalo bull into the Badlands and was out of sight and hearing of his companions.

When he had brought down his game, he noted carefully every feature of his surroundings, so that he might at once detect anything unusual, and tied his horse with a long lariat to the horn of the dead bison, while skinning and cutting up the meat so as to pack it to camp.

section two spotted tail from indian heroes and great chieftains by charles a eastman o hiesa spotted tail among the sioux chiefs of the transition period only one was shrewd enough to read coming events in their true light it is said of spotted tail that he was rather a slow-moving boy preferring in their various games and mimic battles to play the rle of counsellor to plan and assign to the others their parts in the fray this he did so cleverly that he soon became a leader among his youthful contemporaries and withal he was apt to mimicry and impersonation so that the other boys were accustomed to say of him he has his grandfather's wit and the wisdom of his grandmother spotted tail was an orphan reared by his grandparents and at an early age compelled to shift for himself thus he was somewhat at a disadvantage among the other boys yet even this fact may have helped to develop in him courage and ingenuity One little incident of his boy life, occurring at about his tenth year, is characteristic of the man.

In the midst of a game, two boys became involved in a dispute which promised to be a serious one, as both drew knives.

The young spotted-tail instantly began to cry, ìThe Shoshones are upon us! To arms! To arms!î and the other boys joined in the war-whoop.

This distracted the attention of the combatants and ended the affair.

We had to have horses.

We had to get across the high mountains.

But the Timid Shoshones remained in hiding.

And we kept on pulling and pulling our way up the river.

Thank you.

The origin of this pronunciation remains a brilliant act of municipal pushback.

When the town was first being established, residents originally preferred names like Tebow, connected to a local Shoshone word.

Their backup choice was Never Sweat, a nod to the dry climate and the surrounding settlements.

Postal authorities promptly rejected these choices and summarily imposed the name Dubois to honour Fred Dubois, a politician from Idaho.

That geographical literacy grew out of decades spent in the multilingual fur trade.

Bridger spoke several indigenous languages alongside French and Spanish.

He married three native women identified in historical sources as Flathead, Ute and Shoshone, and maintained a vital alliance with the eastern Shoshone leader, Chief Washakie.

His linguistic fluency was so reliable that he served as the official interpreter for the Crow Nation at the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty Council.

But yes, they're part of that process.

Who is it around you? Whose lands are you on again? So we're kind of right in where the two come together, which is the northern Paiute and the western Shoshone.

Okay.

And those communities, they have their water.

a 30-year-old Shoshone cold case, a Hewlett woman retires from a 66-mile mail route, and controversy over skeleton sex orgy display.

It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, October 26th.

I'm Mack Watson.