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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-August 31, 2025. This is the second 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 traditional cultural aspects of this year's Cultural Exchange. Your generous donation will go to the registered 501(c)(3) non-profit "In Good Faith, Inc" to support the many events associated with the Cultural Exchange. These events include setup for the tipi at Festival Meadows, fuel & mileage reimbursements for tribal participants, movie & documentary screenings, the tribal drum group, the exhibition powwow MC, tribal dancers during the exhibition powwow on August 30, tribal horse riders during the parade on August 30, and breakfast and lunch meals provided to visitors and participants at the cultural events. Your generous donation will help make sure these events are as successful as last year. Thank you again to everyone that donated!

Visitors gather at Festival Meadow to witness an exhibition pow-wow during Wagon Days in 2018. Express photo by Roland Lane.

Wagon Days 2025:

https://www.wagondays.com

Schedule of Events:

Friday, August 29: Wagon Days events begin!

Saturday, August 30: Wagon Days full schedule!

Sunday, August 31: Departure Day!

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

Wagon Days 2024:

https://www.mtexpress.com/wood_river_journal/special_sections/labor-day-weekend-event-schedule/article_0024427c-58f6-11ef-9add-63a45fef7f37.html

and:

https://www.mtexpress.com/arts_and_events/events/northern-shoshoni-people-to-hold-cultural-exchange/article_cda7ad8c-649b-11ef-9eb1-cb2670b84e72.html