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Wind River

American  
[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

  1. a river in W central Wyoming, flowing SE and joining the Popo Agie River to form the Bighorn River. 120 miles (193 km) long.


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In some cases, bison meat harvested from Native American lands is being sold or donated, as it was during the coronavirus pandemic on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023

Such deaths have been increasingly common in the Green River headwaters in the Wind River Range, where in 2019 the U.S.

From Washington Times • May 26, 2023

"I also saw another one out in Wyoming that was part of the Wind River Range," Gilman recalled excitedly.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

Two U.N. security officers converged on 29-year-old Big Wind, a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe who lives on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and hustled the protester away from the U.S. pavilion.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022

One old Nevada Shoshone woman referred to the Eastern Shoshone as Kwichundöka, while a native of Wind River referred to his people as Gwichundöka, slight phonetic variants of the common term meaning "Buffalo eaters."

From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Murphy, Robert F.

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