The UW Foundation marked the creation of the Zedora Teton Enos Excellence Fund with a ceremony April 23 at the McMurry Legacy Hall in the Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center. From left are: front row, Laura Raynolds, Chief Washakie Foundation trustee; Zedora Enos, namesake of the excellence fund and Chief Washakie Foundation trustee; and Ann Abeyta, also a Chief Washakie Foundation trustee; back row, James Trosper, Chief Washakie Foundation chairman and director of UW’s High Plains American Indian Research Institute; Lee Spoonhunter, co-chairman of the Northern Arapaho Business Council; UW President Ed Seidel; and John Washakie, co-chairman of the Eastern Shoshone Business Council. (UW Photo)
April 29, 2021
UW President Ed Seidel, right, receives a check from Zedora Enos, a trustee of the Chief Washakie Foundation. Also on hand for the recent ceremony was James Trosper, Chief Washakie Foundation chairman and director of UW’s High Plains American Indian Research Institute. (UW Photo)
The Chief Washakie Foundation has established an endowment fund the Zedora Teton Enos Excellence Fund at the University of Wyoming that benefits the Wind River Indian Reservation community.
“I wanted to see this endowment created because of a passion for education and being an entrepreneur, and to help others know that they can get out and do something,” says Shoshone elder and entrepreneur Zedora Teton Enos, the fund’s namesake and great-granddaughter of Chief Washakie. “At the beginning, I wanted to set an example and set a good example and let others know what we can do. I want our people to know that they can roll up their sleeves and do something for themselves.”
Three lost sons have returned home to the Wind River Reservation 135 years after they made the trek east to Pennsylvania, where they died and were buried. The repatriation of their remains in 2017 and 2018 came about through the efforts of their Northern Arapaho families, efforts detailed in the Wyoming Humanities-supported documentary
Home from School: The Children of Carlisle.
In early March 1881, Little Chief, Horse, and Little Plume boys aged fourteen, eleven, and nine left their Northern Arapaho families on the Wind River Reservation and traveled by train to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Little Chief’s father was Chief Sharp Nose, Little Plume’s father was Chief William Friday, and Horse’s father was Eagleman.
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