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Washakie (c 1804–1900)| US Shoshone chief. He assisted early trappers, traders, and settlers, and fought with the USA in their wars with the Sioux and other tribes that had been traditional enemies of the Shoshone. In 1868 he exchanged Shoshone lands for a reservation at Wind River, Wyoming. He served as a chief through the 1870s. Washakie was born in the Green River Valley of present-day eastern Utah and southern Wyoming. The epitaph on his grave reads: ‘Always loyal to the Government and to his white brothers’. |
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