The Wind River Indian Reservation spans 2.2 million acres and is home to 2,500 Eastern Shoshone and more than 5,000 Northern Arapaho Indians. Although the two tribes own and govern the reservation jointly, most of the Shoshone live in the western half around Fort Washakie, while the Arapahos are centered around Ethete and Arapahoe.
The Eastern Shoshone people belong to Uto-Aztecan linguistic family, which once stretched from the Cascades in the northwest, to the northern plains of Wyoming, and southward to Mexico. Except for the Washos of California, this linguistic group included all the Indians in the Great Basin Area, including the Shoshonis, the Paiutes, the Bannocks, the Commanches and the Utes.
The Northern Arapaho tribe of Wyoming is one of four groups of Arapaho who originally occupied the headwaters of the Arkansas and Platte Rivers in what is now northeastern Colorado. Culturally, a Plains Indian tribe, the Arapaho are distinguished from other Plains tribes by their language, which is a variation of the Algonquin language.
Beginning in 1995 a $5.00 Recreation Stamp, issued by the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribal Fish and Game Department and approved vendors must be purchased by all permit holders and kept in possession while angling. The stamp must be signed in ink at the appropriate location provided on the stamp. The cost of the stamp is in addition to the fishing permit cost. Permit holders are required to purchase only one Recreation Stamp per year. Duplicate Recreational Stamps are available only at the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribal Fish and Game office, located at Fort Washakie, Wyoming.
The stamps measure 38.5 x 56.5mm and are issued in panes of five with 20 panes to a book with two carbonless sheets between each pane. There are straight edges at the top and bottom and are small pin perforated between the stamps. The same design has been used every year, so the only difference is the date and the expiration date. Pricing information has not been provided for the Reservation due to lack of information, not necessarily because of scarcity.
Paper color Mint Used on license
WR 1 1995 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 2 1996 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 3 1997 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 4 1998 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 5 1999 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 6 2000 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 7 2001 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 8 2002 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 9 2003 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 10 2004 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 11 2005 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 12 2006 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 13 2007 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 14 2008 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 15 2009 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 16 2010 5.00 Recreation multicolor
WR 17 2011 5.00 Recreation multicolor

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