Washakie - Last Chief of the Eastern Shoshone

From his birth in the Bitterroot Mountains among the Salish Tribe, to his exploits as a warrior with the Lemhi Shoshone and Bannocks, Washakie was recognized early as an extraordinary person. But he made his historical claim to greatness in the second half of the 19th century, as chief of the Eastern Shoshone. For lesson plans, visit windriveredu.org/wes

[@ItsTeton]

I’m a quarter eastern Shoshone and a quarter Arapaho. This was super cool to watch. My family lives in crow heart Wyoming ❤

[@JLDB1987]

A man of honor, faith and wisdom. A great American.

[@lisamartinez3460]

Very much enjoyed this program.I am very proud of my quarter of Cherokee blood that runs through my viens.God bless all our proud red brothers and sisters.

[@bartonknight2254]

Hi Sister. I'm a quarter Cherokee Indian and damn proud of it. I'm a Cowboy as well. Anytime I want to play Cowboys and Indians ... I just play with myself. (that'd be a joke, dear) God bless you. Much love. 🤠

[@iwxw8437]

Half purepecha, its always nice to see other tribes histories.

[@JudeNance]

My grandfather took a building off of Fort Laramie before it was a National Monument. The family lived on Horse Creek.

[@merlin6625]

Our Great Chief! Much Honor, Respect, and Gratitude for him, our Leader and Teacher. The Tribe will always miss Chief Washakie!!! Prayers and Smoke! OOS! (AMEN!)

[@rae1957tn]

I would love to go there and feel this man’s spirit. I know that sounds crazy but I feel things deeply . My Grandmother was half Seminole

[@CarlEastvold]

My g-g-uncle, George Morris, a Welsh/Menominee/French Canadian fur trader among the Shoshone on the Popo-agie, knew Washakie and spoke highly of his wisdom in his journel.

[@robertspecht1911]

Great piece on the Shoshone and Chief Washakie. My father was a building contractor in Casper, and had hired a Shoshone, Gordon Whitting. Both him and his wife retired south to Arizona in the late 60's. I remember his wife had made my father an Indian beaded belt, before they left for Arizona.

[@randallbates9020]

Great program. I used to live in Big Piney Wyoming with my Grandfather, we looked to the east and the Wind River mountains are all anyone could see. Stunningly beautiful. I miss those days and my grandfather. RIP Washakee

[@shanghunter7697]

What a GREAT, respectful, intelligent thinking man ! If only all could be that respectful and caring. The chief was buried with full military honors, that alone speaks volumes.

[@ACOUSTIC_4LOVE]

Washakie’ Along with Chief Joseph’ and few other Notable Chiefs were true Spiritual Leaders. Recognizing the Creator. Always Strong and Brave in Battle, but Forging peace when possible. My Last Custom Acoustic Guitar Build was Named after this Great Warrior and Human Being. The Lable’ inside Proudly States-The ‘Washakie’

[@natashadrennan1465]

He was my great great great great grand father! I was taking from my people

[@darylwebb1847]

SHOSHONE PEOPLE ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL. I think all American natives people are great people...I am only 5 % not much. Could an Indian spirit be inside a person from the past? In 1976, I visited the west with my family when I was 16. I felt like I been here before.... It was very interesting about Washakie peoples...and Shoshone...won' to tanka...to all. thank you...I have relatives are full blood native American.

[@reidellis1988]

This incredible man gave Shoshone land to the Northern Arapaho, after the Massacre at Sand Creek. He showed love to his enemies. Truly remarkable.

[@helentrove620]

What a beautiful soul, such an honorable, noble man RIP

[@sacredbundleman6301]

My Great Grandfather Chief Piapot (1816-1908) was the last Great War Chief, a Medicine man and Treaty signatory of the Plains Cree. He too fought the Blackfoot. Many great deeds should remembered....Here's one people might relate too.....After Custer was massacred, Sitting Bull went to him for refuge with the cavalry hot on his heels. The Canadian Mounted Police told them to leave Canada. I am positive Washakie and my GGrdfather knew each other. Hiy Hiy

[@greenbanana311]

It's weird, i, as a little half white, half Shoshone kid can remember swimming in the Sweetwater River, wading into it in 1992 in the summer after my mother had finished doing the Sundance to pray for the health and safety if my brother and sister and I, feeling the glacial coldness of that good water, and the fishes I could see underneath. (Even remembering now with 34-year-old- eyes.)

[@greenbanana311]

I'm getting to be an old man, now (especially in Indian years,) but I love remembering those beautiful thoughts of clean air, dry grass, and a perfect swim in the river.

[@h1ll13illy2]

what an awesome man. he seemed a true leader thinking of only the welfare of those he loved.these kinds of men are missed today

[@marcalan1198]

America is still of many men that put family above anything else. My father is that man. I'm that way. integrity and compassion is held with pride.

[@QuitinaOnawa]

I mean he took us Arapaho people in, I wish I knew how the story goes. I'm forever greatful.

[@ChiefofTradez]

Were still here and getting stronger once again

[@AnupBhatt]

Please return to your roots, and do not identify with christianity. Proudly wear your Indian names. Or should I say Native American names. Because I am the other kind of Indian. America would have been much greater if the Native Americans united and ruled it. Modernism would still come to it, but not on the terms of the Western civilization. It'd come on the terms of the nature loving children of the Natives.

[@dayannyleiva3196]

Anup Bhatt 100% agreed

[@JC-tv5zx]

@@AnupBhatt Native pple are no better and no worse than every human kind...What You say, sir, is a dreamers opinion...just 1 little example: Pple always claim the Black Hills, Paha Sapa, to be given back to the Sioux Lakota! Who knows that the Lakota tribes conquered the Black Hills by brutal warfare from the Cheyenne 1750 ? So it is a thing of the Washitsu, the white man, to look back in history...The natives do not do that..they live in the present, looking forward to the near future, but their past is their past..which has nothing to do with nowadays...So no one can say, what would happen if...that is never the way natives think, because thats a waste of thoughts... That is what my native friends told me,cuz I am very interested in their past...they think back as long as to the stories their elders alive tell them...the rest of their history is a mix of myths, fairy tales and history told from generation to generation... Tribal ppl live in the moment... Peace..

[@JC-tv5zx]

@@AnupBhatt Dont You understand that for native tribes a white man was equal as a man from another tribe...? If You throw all those different folks into one pot, You insult them deeply...

[@joeyfromcali]

@@JC-tv5zx As a Indiginous aka Native American. I find you speaking for any Tribe or band Insulting. Let us speak for ourselves. I do look to the past and know how it effects my peoples present and future. When the United States recognizes and actually upholdes it treaties. Then you can talk. Your words are falling on deaf ears.

[@Pasovineyard]

My grandfather did the carving of Washakie for the Thermopolis hot springs.

[@infernalsoror5079]

That's really awesome!

[@soonermimi53]

Distance Shooter our history books need to tell the real story. White people like me need to be told from the time they are young, in the history books and their parents, that their ancestors were no better than those in some of the countries we look down on. I carry their shame, even tho most do not. My father taught me. To come in the name of GOD is disgraceful, just like the Spanish Inquisition.

[@MTknitter22]

Distance Shooter Very beautiful

[@ronnietodd4990]

The PEIAGN BLACKFOOT!!!!!¡

[@AnAdorableWombat1]

That is awesome

[@peggyjones3282]

Such a sad story, but what a great man. I've been to the site of the Bear River Massacre. It's pretty sobering to think about what happened there.

[@michaeldean9338]

Thanks for the tribute to this beautiful and wise brother. Learned a lot. Thanks

[@MTknitter22]

This was beautiful. Wonderful Chief

[@danielhensley2597]

Danbuska DAMN SKIPPY! I’m only quarter Mountain Shoshone but that is how I’ve thought of myself all my life. My grandmother was the most important person in my life until I got married. The wisdom and values she taught me have been integral to who I am. Washington DC needs too pay attention to the wisdom of indigenous peoples all around the world! Harmony with the earth and each other, is what people need at this time.

[@danielhensley2597]

Plus the star ⭐️ people! Remember we all come from the stars ✨ and we all will return some day! Greetings from Alaska

[@evyrichard3844]

you have now the respect and admiration of many White people . You hold the true human values. May you be an example for our children, and our children s children. Your wonderful spirit, strength and sense of humor puts me to shame. I don't know how to atone for everything you endured as a nation and as individuals. This world is mad, From a resident in France/Austria and Ireland.

[@martinmullen71]

A amazing man and leader, right to the end when he takes his last breath.

[@swirlcrop]

This channel has so many good documentaries.

[@AffinityNetNews]

You can see the great wisdom, goodness and rye humor in his wonderful face. What an incredible leader, and honorable man he was. I wish I could have known him. Thank you Wyoming PBS for making this documentary about Washakie a true hero to his people. A man all humanity can look up to as the very type of leadership missing in our present day political parties of inept, greedy, corrupt, weak and compromised criminals in power in our States, Washington, media, Wall Street and mega-corporations. None of these pathetic fools could stand-up next to this great man.

[@user-wv5fq8di2m]

Well said.

[@mariekatherine5238]

He was the type of leader the US needs now, a defender of his people, endowed with wisdom, a true statesman.

[@travisadams4470]

We do have a leader that defends his people. TRUMP 2020!

[@lyricdixey3791]

Travis Adams LOL

[@SKC193]

Travis Adams Hahaha! A joke this early in the morning!! Thanks, I needed a laugh!

[@prigual2901]

@@travisadams4470 hi. Not by polluting everything, and Trump doesn't care about the environment. Only about the money

[@tmcgee1614]

@@travisadams4470 that's okay Travis these people are ignorant and don't realize what's really going on they listened to the mainstream media and all the lies they spew. I'm on your side.

[@PeggyJame]

Native Spirituality and Strength.

[@ginaotteson4163]

I'm from Pocatello Idaho next to Fort Hall Shoshone - Bannock Reservation

[@spirithawk2418]

Great documentary about a Nation and a magnificent warrior

[@jonimclin1550]

I respect all Indian's and Nature of our Land! Blessings to all 🙏

[@dalekundtz4603]

If anyone had a just right to complain about mistreatment by the government, it is the Native American tribes. Live in peace and trust the word of the honest heart.

[@dalekundtz4603]

The heart never lies.

[@crystalhysell9234]

So you mean to tell me the Native Americans Didn't a fight over land with each other

[@michaeledmund5677]

@@crystalhysell9234 not relevant love! Is the abuse of white man the native and systematically destroy a people. Every one fight for land. Blood have a voice and it speaks to creator!

[@summersands8105]

What an awesome and impressive documentary.

[@missymason2377]

Total respect honor integrity...indigenous

[@troycampbell19]

Thank You Chief Washakie

[@jamesoliver5688]

Courage is always better than fear ! Good man to follow .

[@russcollins4762]

Just recently I travelled thru wind river and the hot springs . beautiful. I imagine the people are as beautiful as the land. I would have liked to smoke with Chief Washakie . Washington deal breakers !

[@frannydarko2698]

I'm from England and I'm fascinated with indians..

[@kristinearagon4754]

I am Eastern Shoshone from Wind River Reservation, I related to all these people on this document. :)

[@arlenefreeman2109]

lakota from south Dakota,

[@arlenefreeman2109]

wind river movie was awesome,

[@mikeMikeydowns]

Respect

[@jaulloa21]

Good. I admire the northern tribes very much. I hope to learn more

[@RomanZerstoren]

That's cool

[@ChocolateThunderfromDownUnder9]

My family my tribe our honor 🐉

[@nestormatos8477]

What a wonderful man and blessings to his people.

[@NSS36069]

Nestor Matos indeed

[@jerrylinnebur1587]

My great-grandfather was at washakie funeral.

[@normangilbert1236]

What an honor !

[@coryarnold3369]

I enjoyed this quite a bit..Ive always been interested in Native American history,but never heard/studied much about the Shoshone in particular.Very interesting,thank you Wyoming PBS.

[@kaybelle55]

The best station I love documentaries and all the history thank you so much

[@nancysmith9487]

HOW,Thank yous for sharing, Peace and harmony.... Really nice job interns,assistants, archival,audio engineers,narrators,voice,actors,pianist, flutist,music,maps,helicopter pilots,Wyoming, tribes and tribeswoman. Producers of and Wyoming pbs.org and family and beautiful scenery, pictures and artists

[@joycelaurito1726]

Thank you. My heart hurts but I must believe our God will somehow make this right.

[@arisgountas2459]

Only one God for the Universe

[@jimmysapien9961]

He will !!!

[@johnadams2063]

Make what right?? You want to go back to eating rocks??

[@arynnehempstock1108]

That was so beautiful- thank you!

[@alaexpectativaentodo7066]

SO are you ma'am.

[@rupertrozells5816]

Chief Washakie was a great leader, his priority was for the survival of the Native American, his tribe the Shoshone. Not only was he a great warrior, negotiator. He showed great humanity, he allowed a rival tribe who were in abject poverty to live on the reservation that he was allocated by the US government? I have the highest respect & admiration for this great Statesman & spiritual leader of the Shoshone people. May Chief Washakie always be at peace & may his soul rest in eternal rest.

[@jamesmorgan6426]

we need leaders like this today.

[@netrakulkarni5253]

When we read books or comics in my childhood in India. We never new the white man as America . But the real American's are the Natives who leave there! God be with the Natives!and keep them happy and safe!

[@joesmith6776]

An edited version with commentary not over amplified by music would be nice.

[@jasperq7146]

Reminds me of my grandfather...Thank you for sharing!

[@vernalstevens600]

I'm proud to say I have a grandson who married a Shoshone girl giving me 3 beautiful great grand children, They live on the Wind River Reservation at Fort Washakie, I think that's right.Anyway, he is Hawaiian, Mexican, Phillippino, and Pokiki, mix that with Shoshone and you get beautiful, strong, intelligent children.

[@paulweston2267]

All God's children are beautiful, be they Vietnamese, Siberian, Norwegian, Algonquin, or Shoshone. Remember that.

[@JC-tv5zx]

To be proud of has to do with my deeds...never with my birth folk...One has to earn it..to be proud...understand?

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@paulweston2267 Don't sermon people. He is right in saying that mixing genes produces strong children, as lack of new gene in a small pool causes genetic diseases. This isn't about beautiful it's about genetic health.

[@BaddieLuvsBaddies]

goognam goognws LOL at genetic health which has been completely destroyed by the white healthcare world with all their poisonous vaccines

[@lapislazulii141]

goognam goognws This is proven false. A lie with and agenda to create decadence. As it creates a generation more easily governed.

[@jonimclin1550]

God why can't we just love one another!

[@robynfarrar278]

It will never happen. From the beginning of time to the end, man will always be the same and God sees it all................how disappointed he must be.

[@johnnyblack2131]

Hello from Wales in Brexit Britain ✝️ 🇬🇧 Respect 🐺

[@mariannapatane6864]

God bless him

[@jessarellanes6648]

I really enjoyed this program, thank you,,,

[@JayyBiebzShawty307]

When I look at photos of washakie and compare them to my mothers step father George wesaw who I grew up calling grandfather and still so to this day, I definitely see the family resemblance. I just wish I knew how closely related they are.

[@marcwright9554]

I love and respect all Great Native Indian Chiefs , their people , history , culture and ways of life , even the past was not so simple when Columbus and the crew came over the ocean , manipulated and forcefully implanted themselves here to help kick start the world into the complex matrix of deceit that it has become today .

[@philliplong7873]

Bullshit. All the Native Americans I know love America.

[@superfixmajorandminorrepai2179]

thank God for the white christian nations who's love of all things good stamped out human sacrifice, cannibalism, and slavery threw out most of the known world.

[@keradasilva6852]

exactly

[@K131399]

where did the indians get their horses? columbus? lol

[@jamesb7651]

@@K131399 probably from escaped Spanish herds (up from the south)

[@jonimclin1550]

Still we are all still to love each other and see thru the crap what time is has put us thru

[@pamelawherey4583]

His face is strong and kind.

[@mikebailey9566]

Wow, died at 96 years of age? In those days, a great accomplishment in and of itself.

[@moniemel-ganayni8732]

The average life expectancy thirteen years ago for the Native American was 40 yr.s

[@lindalee7322]

Mankind is wicked and unethical. It's getting worse, so watch your back. Eyes open. Be not dismayed. Be wise and discerning.

[@ragtimegals]

Not really. Check your ancestry...many of my ancestors lived to 100 back to the 1600s.

[@pamelawherey4583]

Background music is nice👍🏼

[@lasse1187]

Honor and Respect this leader and his people

[@sherrilee230]

To think of the love he showed for his land and people. What foresight and wisdom

[@staceystory7175]

They are my people love to the Chief.

[@jonimclin1550]

It's all about Mother Earth and Time to Care again!

[@jonimclin1550]

Just remember that we all of the Unconditional love of mankind and we are here too help! 🕊️

[@lindaalba6138]

Is An Honor To Get To Know One More Of My Estraordinarys Warriors Heros Brothers My Race The Originals Native American.Is An Honor To Ear His Life History An Extraordinary Person I Am Happy To Look Like Him.

[@centuriontwofivezeroone2794]

Peace through submission is not peace it is servitude and imprisonment... "Give us your freedom, submit to "our" will and we will protect you" It all sounds very familiar.

[@missymason2377]

Thankyou so much for sharing this story. Educational and vert deep.

[@haroldjoyce7166]

I THINK ALL HUMANS COULD LEARN MUCH FROM THIS DOCMENTARY

[@garyellington1216]

A great warrior chief.

[@scottriley1913]

I’m so in love with History..... but especially American... well.......because that’s what I’m, I have been very lucky on occasion to be able to fill in and teach it at night at the University level, what a great honor.

[@powwowcritic13]

Washakie has pendorielle in him, he's my grandmothers uncle. Pokerjims from Flathead Montana.

[@jonimclin1550]

So sorry blessings to all of you and more 💔 no we should all Love understand the situation of time!

[@philpek6341]

True warriors will never be forgotten good and bad

[@c.neekan9118]

Shores of the hudson over here. I know were my relitives are, that wasn't that long ago. My great great grandfather was the one who signed the treaty 9

[@gabrielegalli8245]

Good values and living in tune with nature not respected by the new comers to the local ones

[@billw1096]

Been hunting out of Dubois 9 times. Crowheart butte is a welcoming site.

[@annabeaulne2541]

Miigwich So Sad My heart Bleeds for my people

[@paddyrowen6307]

A wise and amazing man.

[@daves8164]

Beautiful horses.

[@RomanZerstoren]

That man is great.

[@mikejackson3658]

Love learning about the old west my dad grew up in Nebraska

[@63256325N]

Thank you.

[@415sassyfre]

So sorry that these people have lost so much I cannot believe mankind is so cool breaks my heart

[@jimstineman638]

Hello Kristi... I too am enrolled eastern shoshone of the wind river reservation and I wish more respect and honor were attributed to our people. The move "wind river " was a fictional movie that was close to truth. More non fictional media needs done, especially before the European invasion and genocide.

[@stormydouglas1227]

jim stineman how are you enrolled?

[@roberthiorns7584]

Merci Beaucoup.

[@mayforddavis9291]

So sad the way the Native Americans have been treated all these years; constant broken promises. It used to be said that white man speaketh with forked tongue. Government speaks with many, many forked tongues flapping in the wind. Thanks for sharing.

[@wilshirewarrior2783]

Mayford Davis Indians were not paragons of virtue either..many of them

[@wilshirewarrior2783]

Europeans brought the horse to the plains Indians so how about some love.

[@philliplong7873]

All the Native Americans I know love America.

[@philgambill4473]

@@philliplong7873 my family

[@sandramcclure2598]

Pryor to Columbus, and ever sense ,other than mass gambling casinos , the Native Americans has did nothing for America or the world, The white men took America and change the world, some say brought it 1000 years forward in civilization and health , brought more people out of poverty than anyone ever in history .cured more diseases than anyone in history , remember ,the first rule of understanding is truth, just saying ..

[@sophielammond4720]

Before I even watch this film I think it is a total atrocity that befell all native American people by the hand of whites. I am classed as a caucasian, a white person, & I wish to extend my hand and heart to all native American people in friendship but mostly in sorrow, to say I am sorry for all that came to you due to whites. I would of Loved to of lived your peaceful ways in touch with mother earth.

[@felishabey985]

Descendant of the Shoshone tribe and SPIRITUALLY gifted, empath, healer, lightworkers,stared etc

[@viktorarvidson1513]

Long live the Tribe!! Remember also the classic Satankhai's words in Macahan family story: - I'm getting older, then comes another time... God luck with your hunting!! I worship You 2!!

[@kameijohnwilson9208]

Lovely story!

[@theideabank8797]

He's informing that he's wise which makes our family cry

[@douglucas1617]

yes I've been to Wind River many times and and visited my Cheyenne Brothers why hey ypp low Tatanka kiyotaka

[@bluehand9631]

Excellent

[@menstrualgravy4621]

So sad how history is so quickly forgotten. Elders so quickly ignored. Everything will repeat itself.

[@cheech8966]

When people talk about great chiefs on the internet like KZbin, Chief Washakie's name should always be mentioned, he fought the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Blackfeet, Crow and would defeat these tribes from what I read. Washakies and his Eastern Shoshoni defeated the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho in the battle of trout creek and then chased them out of the wind river after killing several of the enemies.

[@jasonladd6400]

noble chief

[@etymologist1976]

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