Editing Wyoming (section)

====Wind River Indian Reservation====
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[[File:WindRiverCanyon.JPG|thumb|[[Wind River Canyon]]]]

The [[Shoshone|Eastern Shoshone]] and [[Arapaho|Northern Arapaho]] tribes share the Wind River [[Indian reservation|Indian Reservation]] in central western Wyoming, near [[Lander, Wyoming|Lander]]. The reservation is home to 2,500 Eastern Shoshone and 5,000 Northern Arapaho.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wind-river.org/info/communities/reservation.php |title=Wind River Country: Wind River Indian Reservation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319064509/http://wind-river.org/info/communities/reservation.php |archive-date=March 19, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

[[Chief Washakie]] established the reservation in 1868<ref name="shoshone">[http://www.easternshoshone.net/WindRiverReservation.htm Background of Wind River Reservation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227071317/http://www.easternshoshone.net/WindRiverReservation.htm |date=February 27, 2009 }}</ref> as the result of negotiations with the federal government in the [[Fort Bridger]] Treaty,<ref name="pbs">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chiefs/rez.html |title=Chiefe: The Rez |website=[[PBS]] |access-date=September 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228091722/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chiefs/rez.html |archive-date=February 28, 2013 |url-status=live }} PBS. Independent Lens</ref> but the federal government forced the Northern Arapaho onto the Shoshone reservation in 1876 after it failed to provide a promised separate reservation.<ref name="pbs" />

Today the Wind River Indian Reservation is jointly owned, with each tribe having a 50% interest in the land, water, and other natural resources.<ref name="arapaho">{{cite web|url=http://www.northernarapaho.com/background|title=Background—Northern Arapaho Tribe|website=Northernarapaho.com|access-date=September 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915064429/http://www.northernarapaho.com/background|archive-date=September 15, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It is a sovereign, self-governed land with two independent governing bodies: the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and the Northern Arapaho Tribe. Until 2014, the Shoshone Business Council and Northern Arapaho Business Council met jointly as the Joint Business Council to decide matters that affect both tribes.<ref name="shoshone" /> Six elected council members from each tribe served on the joint council.