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WASHABE — WASHAKIE'S BAND 



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also appears as an alternative name for 

 L. Salvador. (j. r. s. ) 



Chacha, — Lattre, map U. S., 178-1. Onaohas.— Jef- 

 ferys, Fronch Pom. Am., i, 163, 1761 (mLsprint). 

 Ouacha. — Iberville (Ifl'J'.M in Margry, Dt>('., iv, 155, 

 ISSO. Ouanchas.— MeKeiinevaiid Hall.Ind.Tribe.s, 

 III, 79, 1S54. Wachas.— Brown, Vk^est. Gaz., 152, 

 1817. Wanchas.— Kossu (1759), Trav. La., I, 281, 

 1771. Warshas.— Martin, Hist. La., I, 143, 1827. 

 Washas.— Sibley (1805), Hist. Sketches, 84, 1806. 

 Washaws.— Drake, Bk. Ind., xii, 1848. 



Washabe ('dark buffalo'). The 6th 

 Ponca gens, the 2d on the Wazhazhe 

 side of the tribal circle. 



Wacabe.— Dorsev in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 228, 1897. 

 Wa-sha'-ba.— Morgan, Ane. Soc., 155, 1877. 



Washakie ('shoots [the buffalo] run- 

 ning.' — Corbusier. It is also said that 

 the name means 'gambler's gourd,' and 

 that its bearer was originally known as 

 Pinaquana, meaning 'smell of sugar'). 

 A Shoshoni chief, of mixed ShoHhoniand 



Umatilla blood (according to some au- 

 thorities he was half white), born about 

 1804. Before reaching maturity he left 

 the Umatilla and joined his mother's 

 people, the Shoshoni. Washakie was 

 noted chiefly for his friendship toward 

 the whites "and as a warrior against his 

 tribal enemies. He early became the 

 chief of the P'astern Band of Shoshoni of 

 Wyoming, known also as Washakie's 

 Band, by reason of his prowess and lead- 

 ership, but when about 70 years of age 

 some of the younger men aspiring to 

 the chiefship, took steps to depose him. 

 Washakie disappeared from the camp, 

 and two months later, on the night when 

 the council met to take action, he sud- 

 denly appeared with six scalps which he 



had taken alone on the war-path, thus 

 setting at rest all further opposition to 

 his cliieftaincy on the ground of age. 

 Washakie is described as having been 

 lightin color, of commanding figure, very 

 tall, powerfully built, and of dignified 

 carriage, and had a reputation for great 

 endurance. He realized the importauce 

 of his position, and was fond of form and 

 ceremony in his dealings with white peo- 

 ple. When in the 50's emigrants passed 

 in large numbers through the Shoshoni 

 country in Wyoming, Washakie and his 

 people exercised great forbearance, fol- 

 lowing the injunctions of the Govern- 

 ment agents to aid overland travelers in 

 recovering strayed or lost stock, helping 

 the emigrants across dangerous fords, 

 and refraining from all acts of reprisal 

 when animals of the white men destroyed 

 the Indian root and herding grounds. 

 So friendly and helpful were Washakie 

 and the members of his band that 9,000 

 emigrants signed a paper commending 

 their kind treatment. Washakie owed 

 his great popularity among his people to 

 his exploits on the war-path, especially 

 against the Siksika (Blackfeet) and the 

 Crows, and also, it is asserted, because in 

 his younger days he brooked no opposi- 

 tion in the tribe and allowed no asylum 

 to a horse thief or a vagabond. Another 

 war-chief of the Shoshoni, named Pushi- 

 can, or Purchican, bore on his forehead 

 the scar of a blow from Washakie's toma- 

 hawk received during an altercation. 

 He was for many years in the employ 

 of the American and Hudson's Bay 

 fur companies, and was long the valued 

 companion of white hunters and trap- 

 pers. Before the battle of Bear r. in 1863, 

 in which Gen. Connor defeated the Ban- 

 nock and hostile Shoshoni who refused 

 to heed Washakie's warning, he fled with 

 the greater portion of his tri])e to Ft 

 Bridger, Wyo., thus saving many of his 

 people from destruction. W hen Ft Brown 

 was established on the site of Lander, 

 Wyo., in 1869, Washakie met the sol- 

 diers and avowed his friendship for the 

 whites, and freciuently served as a scout 

 in campaignsagainstthe Cheyenne, Sioux, 

 Arapaho, Ute, and other hostile tribes. 

 Members of his band also performed 

 valiant service against the Cheyenne fol- 

 lowing the Custerdefeat in 1876. At the 

 time of his death, Feb. 20, 1900, Washakie 

 was a devout member of the Protestant 

 Episcopal church and a firm friend of the 

 missionaries. He was buried, with mili- 

 tary honors, in the cemetery at Ft AVasha- 

 kie, Wyo., where a monument has been 

 erected over hisgrave. He was succeeded 

 by his son, known as Pick Washakie. 



Washakie's Band. The easternmost di- 

 vision of the Shoshoni jiroper, so called 

 from their chief. They formerly ranged 



