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Land Acknowledgment

Sources

Here are the background readings and references used in my land acknowledgment.

Wes Martel

An Eastern Shoshone tribal elder, and the senior Wind River conservation associate for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.

A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment

I used this guide in crafting my land acknowledgment.

Indigenous Narratives of the Red Desert

A recording of three presentations on Indigenous narratives of the Red Desert, WY, including Wes Martel's presentation.

Wind River Indian Reservation

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The 7 Principles-Leave No Trace

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Tracing A Life

Sources of information about Mark F. Meier

W. T. Pfeffer (2013)

Mark F. Meier 1925 to 2012, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 45:1, 1-5, DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-45.1.1

Charlie Brennan

Boulder's Mark F. Meier, pioneer of glacial melt study, dies

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Mark Meier

Neil F. Humphrey

Personal communication

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W. Tad Pfeffer

Personal communication

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About: Wind River Range

Sources of information

Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates

ed by Kauffman, Meacham, Sawyer, Steingisser, Rudd and Ostlind

"American Indians and Migration: 19th Century American Indian Place Names" by Gregory Nickerson, p. 38.

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Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, 3rd Edition

Joe Kelsey

Of the three major guidebooks to the Winds, by Kenneth Henderson, Orrin and Lorraine Bonney, and Joe Kelsey, only Kelsey explicitly credits the Crow People as the source of the name "Wind River."

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Astoria; Or Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains

Washington Irving

Project Gutenberg eBook

The Wind River Range of Wyoming

Kenneth A. Henderson

Henderson tells the origins of the Togwotee Pass name (p. 12).  He also provides the dates in which the Wind River Roadless Area and the rest of the roadless areas gained protection by the Federal Government (p. 47).

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Inventory of Glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, California

by Raub, Brown, and Post

Lists the total glacial area in the Sierras as 50 square km.

Glacial Icemelt in the Wind River Range, Wyoming

by Pochup, Marston, Kerr

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On the shrinking Wind River glaciers

The Rocky Mountains' Largest Glaciers Are Melting With Little Fanfare

Benjamin Storrow

On Thinning Ice: A look at Wind River Range's shrinking glaciers

Casper Star-Tribune

Glaciers Shrinking

Cat Urbigkit

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Indigenous people and the Wind River mountains

Indigenous People in Wyoming and the West

A selection of articles

The First Americans

Scientific American, Nov. 1, 2012

Alpine Lives of Ancient People: High-mountain archeology in Wyoming

Rebecca Hein

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