Papers, 1883-1963.

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Papers, 1883-1963.

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The collection contains material regarding John Robert's mission work on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. There are numerous notes and drafts as well as printed versions of Robert's translations of church literature into the Arapaho and Shoshone languages. Other material includes history of the region and biographical information about Roberts and his family, friends and prominent citizens of the area including Sacagawea.

1.5 cubic ft. (4 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7656352

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Sacagawea, 1786-1884

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Sacagawea, also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea, born in the Lemhi River Valley, near present-day Salmon, IdahoMay circa 1788. She died December 20, 1812 or April 9, 1884, Kenel South Dakota or in Wyoming. She was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cu...

Roberts, John, 1853-1949

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John Roberts was an Episcopalian missionary who worked among the Arapaho and Shoshone peoples on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. He was born in 1853 at Rhuddlan in North Wales. He was educated in Wales and later received an M.A. from Oxford University in England. He was ordained a deacon in 1878. In 1883, John Roberts was sent to the Shoshone Indian Reservation in Wyoming to work among the Indians and to organize missions among the white settlers in the adjacent territory. While th...