Fund Northern Shoshoni Cultural Exchange at Wagon Days 2024

We are grateful for your help in providing funding opportunities for the Northern Shoshoni Cultural Exchange in conjunction with Wagon Days in Ketchum, Idaho, August 28-September 1, 2024. This is the first year that we have been able to hold the Exchange since 2019 and we are excited to bring back the original inhabitants of the Wood River Valley in conjunction with Wagon Days! We are raising funds to support the cultural aspects of this year's Cultural Exchange. Your generous donation will go to the registered 501c3 non-profit "In Good Faith, Inc" to support the many events associated with the Cultural Exchange. These events include setup for the tipi village at Festival Meadows and the Community Library, movie and documentary screenings, the student craft event, the tribal drum group, tribal dancers during the exhibition powwow on August 31, tribal horse riders during the parade on August 31, and breakfast and lunch meals provided to visitors and participants at the cultural events.

Schedule of Events:

In Good Faith, Inc

Formed: August 2, 2018

IRS Employee ID: 84-3089132

Documents, By-Laws, and Articles of Incorporation: available upon request.

Purpose: To undertake research for the purpose of educating and raising public awareness, as well as to advance the legal historic fairness and justice to Native American tribes pertaining to aboriginal rights, treaty violations and failure of the Native American tribes to receive adequate compensation for the taking of ancestral land; to do any other act or thing incident to or connected with the foregoing purposes in advance thereof; and to engage in any other activities for which a nonprofit corporation may be organized under the Washington Nonprofit Corporation Act which fosters the above charitable and educational purposes, and which qualifies as an organization exempt from tax under Code Section 501(c)(3).

Mission Statement: The purpose of In Good Faith is to undertake research regarding aboriginal rights, treaty violations and inadequate compensation, or failure to pay compensation, with respect to American Indians and their ancestral land in order to educate and provide public awareness of the circumstances of American Indians in the loss of their native land.

See Leo Arriwite in action!

"Judge Leo Timothy Arriwite spends his days dealing with legal matters in the courtroom at the Shoshone-Bannock Fort Hall Reservation in eastern Idaho, but when he returns home, he stitches together a connection to his ancestors. He has spent the last two decades tanning, smoking and sewing the 'gauntlet-style' gloves that the Shoshone became known for across the West."

For the rest of the story, check out the article in the Spring 2024 issue of the MAGAZINE OF SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN:

https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/leo-arriwite-shoshoni-glove-maker

Finding could expand Indians’ land claims;

Treaty cession document includes Wood River Valley:

https://www.mtexpress.com/news/state_regional/finding-could-expand-indians-land-claims/article_cddb6ce8-d59a-11e9-9516-477cfbbb05b8.html

Wagon Days 2018:

https://www.mtexpress.com/wood_river_journal/features/native-powwow-is-wagon-days-hit/article_ffc4ab08-b218-11e8-88fd-eb58b3cd5363.html

Native Americans to be welcomed to Wagon Days;

Ralph Harris and Tom Crais invite native group to town:

https://www.mtexpress.com/wood_river_journal/special_sections/native-americans-to-be-welcomed-to-wagon-days/article_0d985254-aa4c-11e8-9caa-7fa9c32a5341.html

Wagon Days 2019: https://www.mtexpress.com/wood_river_journal/special_sections/native-americans-to-return-for-wagon-days/article_b539b740-c81f-11e9-97c6-5bd193dd5f08.html

Wagon Days 2021:

https://www.mtexpress.com/wood_river_journal/community/shoshone-bannock-riders-bring-authentic-experience-to-wagon-days/article_d75c89d4-11c3-11ec-b5bd-7f20086bc7d2.html

Native Americans give a cultural demonstration in Sun Valley during Wagon Days weekend in 2018. Express photo by Tony Evans, 2018.

An exhibition powwow at Festival Meadow in Sun Valley on Saturday drew about a thousand spectators for an experience of Native American dance, music and prayer. Express Photo by Roland Lane, 2018.

The Wagon Days crowd received an authentic Native American experience, thanks to a team of horse racers from Fort Hall Reservation, the administrative center of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. Express Photo by Roland Lane, 2021.