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| View Original: | Morning Star Moses Weed, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin. Mr. Weed, 102, is one of the tribe's revered elders LCCN2015634030.tif.tiff (4984x6915) | |||
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| Keywords: Morning Star Moses Weed, a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe at the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming's Wind River Basin. Mr. Weed, 102, is one of the tribe's revered elders LCCN2015634030.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; The reservation was established for the Eastern Shoshone in 1863 following a unique treaty with Shoshone Chief Washakie admired by Indians and whites alike that allowed his people to choose the site of their reservation on 45 million acres in the land that their ancestors had occupied on a seasonal basis for thousands of years The vast size was dramatically reduced to 3 million acres in a subsequent 1868 treaty The reservation is also home to a second unrelated tribe the Northern Arapahoe who were placed on the reservation in 1878 with a promise never fulfilled of their own reservation in the future ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 069 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634030 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34000/34014a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34014 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34014 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||