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and the Chief Washakie Foundation There are many tales and legends told about Chief Washakie. It’s hard to distinguish between the truth and the stories, but I believe there is probably some legend in all of the tales and some truth in all of the legends. No matter what, he was a man worthy of his great status. Not much is known about his early life. Born some-time between 1798 and 1810 to Lost Woman, who was a Tus-sawehee (White Knife) Shoshoni and Crooked Leg (Paseego) who was Umatilla rescued as a boy from slave traders, adopted by a Shoshoni clan and raised as a Shoshoni Dog Soldier of the Tus-sawehee Shoshoni. Washakie had many names through his life. His birth name was Pinaquanah (“Smells of Sugar”), as a teenager he changed his name to “Shoots the Running Buffalo”. Others called him Gourd Rattler, as he had fashioned a buffalo hide “rattle” that he would take into battle to scare his enemies horses. He met Jim Bridger when he was 16 and they became very good friends. In fact, later in life, Jim married one of Washakie’s daugh-ters making Washakie, Jim Bridger’s father-in-law. Washakie’s father was killed by members of the Piegan Blackfeet when they raided a Shoshone hunting camp. The hunting ceased and the dog soldiers went on the war trail backed by the Comanche. They combed the Boulder, Yellowstone and Musselshell valleys for Blackfeet to kill, and they did kill many. Immediately after the battle that took his father, Washakie’s mother and at least one sister were able to make their way back to the Lemhi’s on the Salmon River in Idaho. Washakie was lost and possibly wounded. His family traditions say he was found by either a band on Ban-nock Indians or a combined Shoshoni and Bannock band. For the next two and a half decades he learned the tradition and ways of a warrior. Washakie was known as a great and fearless warrior. The victory by the Shoshoni, after the battle that took his father, made them once again a proud warrior society. In 1851, at the urging of Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshoni to a coun-cil meeting at Fort Laramie in what is now eastern Wyoming. The Shoshoni had not been invited to this council as most of the tribes in attendance were their traditional enemies. When they arrived at the council, unannounced, many of those from the Souix, Black-feet and other tribes jumped to fight thinking they were being attacked. When things settled down Washakie and his band be-came part of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, and from that time forward Washakie was considered as the head of the Eastern Sho-shoni by representatives of the U.S. Government. Later he and other Dog Soldiers joined with General Crook’s army to defeat the Sioux after Custer’s last stand. He was a great friend of the White People helping settlers recover lost cattle, ford rivers and not al-lowing his warriors to fight against them. He was a friend of Brigham Young, whom he called “Big-Um”, and was baptized into the Mormon church in 1880 , after Big-Um’s death. He spent his last years on the Shoshone reservation. At the age of 70 some of the younger tribesmen tried to oust him as chief. He disappeared for two months, then just as the tribal council met to select a new leader, in strode Washakie with six scalps collected as proof of his undiminished prowess. His prowess in battle, his efforts for peace, and his commitment to his peoples welfare made him one of the most respected leaders in Native American history. In 1878 a U.S. Army outpost was named after him, the only U.S. Army outpost named after a Native American. Washakie county, Wyoming is named after him, a dining hall at UW, a town (now ghost town) in Utah, a 422 foot Liberty ship in service during WWII (the SS Chief Washakie), a U.S. Navy harbor tug (USS Washakie), were all named for the great Chief Washakie. Upon his death in February of 1900, he became the only known Native American to be given a full military funeral.

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This Week In History

Funny! - - - and not so!!!! Do you ever notice from the time you hang up the phone until the pizza guy shows up, the only conversation you have is ‘Where is our pizza?’

Q– What has 132 legs and 8 teeth? A– The front row of a Dwight Yoakum concert!

I’m getting a new car. You know what kind of car I’m going to get? I’m getting a Honda Civic because those are very safe cars. I know ‘cause I saw a guy total one the other day when I ran him off the road.

You ever do the Lifecycle? You know, you're on there for hours. It's a stationary bicycle: you pedal, you go nowhere for hours. They should call this the 'get a life-cycle.'

Did You Know

Trivia Answers:

1 - Ambidextrous 2 - Dogie 3 - Cotton 4 - Benjamin Franklin

If you measure by CD sales, Mozart was the most popular

artist of 2016.

After being shot by poachers in Africa, a 30-year-old ele-

phant named Ben ventured uphill to a nearby safari lodge

and somehow knew to patiently wait the 6 hours it took for

a vet to arrive and treat her injuries. Even after being shot

by humans, Ben wandered around with a large wound in his

shoulder and turned to humans for help instead of instinc-

tually staying on level ground near a water source.

Wrapping paper is barely 100 years old. When the original

founders of Hallmark ran out of the standard red, white,

and green tissue paper people were using to wrap Christ-

mas gifts, they decided to sell the fancy French paper they’d

been using to line envelopes for 10 cents a sheet. It sold

out instantly, they started printing their own within two

years, and wrapping paper is now a $3.2 billion industry.

People who go to concerts regularly are happier, according

to a new study. Listening to music alone doesn’t produce

the same effect - it’s the act of experiencing music as a

community that makes the difference.

If you invite Mickey and Minnie Mouse to your wedding,

they’ll respond with a postcard and a ‘just married’ pin.

Jan. 5th

1925 - First woman U.S. governor Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Wyo-

ming, takes office.

1914 - Henry Ford The automaker announces an unprecedented

five-dollar-a-day minimum wage for his employees.

1905 - National Association of Audubon Societies The organization

is incorporated. It is dedicated to protecting birds.

Jan. 6th

1941 - World War II Pres. F.D. Roosevelt defines the "Four Free-doms" - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want.

1540 - King Henry VIII takes his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. Later, displeased with his new wife, he executed first minister Thomas Cromwell who had arranged the marriage.1862 Civil War The Un-ion's first iron-clad warship, Monitor, sinks off the coast of North Carolina.

Jan. 7th

1929 - Buck Rogers The cartoon character crawls out of a mine on the outskirts of Pittsburgh and into the 25th century.

Jan. 8th

1815 - Battle of New Orleans Although the War of 1812 had ended two weeks earlier, news had not arrived in time to prevent this battle. British troops suffered 2,100 casualties, while American troops led by Andrew Jackson suffered 13.

1721 - 25 girls from the house of correction in Paris arrive in Loui-siana.

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VILLA BANDITS THREW

DOWN GUNS AND RAN WHEN

YANK’S ARTILLERY BEGAN

FIRING

FORT WORTH, TX - The forces of Francisco

Villa were so badly demoralized when they were

shelled near Juarez several months ago by U.S.

artillery that the bandit chieftain never will be able to

regain his prestige and “come back” in the opinion of

Captain Frank Tillman, who recently resigned from

the army after serving six months at Fort Bliss, near

El Paso, with the Thirty-second field artillery. He

also served in France.

“When the bandits were shelled by American artiller-

ymen,” Captain Tillman said, “ the slaughter was

fearful. Many of the outlaws had never before heard

a shell explode and when the missiles began falling

among or near them they broke and ran, throwing

away their arms. Many more bandits were killed

than have been reported.”

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