Much has been written, motion pictures and television
shows have been made, and a lot has been taught about Indians in the west. In Wyoming
the focus is on the: Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Shoshones and Crow. But of
these tribes only the Shoshones were here long term.
In 1700 the tribes of Wyoming included, along with
the Shoshones, the Comanche, Kiowa and Staitans. By 1800 the Comanche had moved
south and the Crow and Cheyenne found a place to live in Wyoming. The Sioux were
soon to follow, arriving shortly after 1800.
Interesting that so little is written about the
century and a half of the more peaceful time for Native people in Wyoming. The
first mountain men/trappers came around 1820 and by the 1840s wagons were
rolling on the Oregon and Mormon trails, and the west of movies and television was
born.
