RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) - The Eastern Shoshone Tribe in Wyoming plans to use grant money from the National Park Service to preserve the 1863 and 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty.
The tribe received about $76,000 from a program to support tribal historic preservation offices. More than 150 tribes around the country received grant money from the program.
Willford Ferris Jr. is director of the Shoshone Tribes Historical Preservation Office.
Ferris tells The Riverton Ranger (https://bit.ly/1NyifIc ) that the Fort Bridger Treaty established the original Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.
He says preserving treaties is important because the tribe’s ancestors signed them.
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Information from: The (Riverton, Wyo.) Ranger, https://www.dailyranger.com
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