What is "washakie"

Chief Washakie (1798/1810 – February 20, 1900) was a renowned warrior first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper, Osborne Russell. In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to the council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). Essentially from that time until his death, he was considered the head of the Eastern Shoshones by the representatives of the United States government.

Washakie may refer to:

• Washakie, (ca. 1804–1900), a Shoshone chief

• Washakie, Utah, a ghost town
• Washakie basin, a United States endorheic basin within the Wyoming Basin physiographic province
• Washakie County, Wyoming
• Washakie Glacier in Wyoming
• Washakie National Forest in Wyoming
• Washakie Reservation, the reservation of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, in Utah
• Washakie Ten, Wyoming, a census-designated place in Wyoming
• Washakie Wilderness, a Wyoming protected area within the Shoshone National Forest

• SS Chief Washakie, an American Liberty ship built in Portland, Oregon, in 1942
• USS Washakie (YTB-386), later YTM-386, a United States Navy harbor tug in service from 1944 to 1946 and from 1953 to probably 1975