Dad, yeah.

You want me to open your cookies?

Okay, now throw this in the trash, okay?

Thank you.

All right, story time.

About 300 million years ago, massive ocean all over what we now call North America.

And it's receding.

And as it recedes across North America, sediment two miles deep gets deposited in what we now call central Wyoming.

So millions of years go by, things dry out, and the Wind River Basin was formed.

What, bud?

Where's the garbage?

It's right there.

Thank you, bud.

That sounds good. Thank you, bud.

That sounds good.

All right, where were we?

So about 3,500 square miles of that basin is the Wind River Indian Reservation.

It's where the eastern Shoshone and northern Arapaho have lived side by side for about, well, for exactly 140 years. They've lived there since right after the Great Sioux War of 1876, which,

by the way, they were on opposite sides of, and Chief Washachee of the Shoshone, his treaty

establishing sovereignty for the Shoshone in, I think 1878, but that was the last time that the U.S. government ever dealt directly with a tribe when dealing with sovereign land. Ever since then, it's been done by executive order. Anyway, so 20 years after that, after that treaty, they find oil. This 1884, they find oil on the basin because you've

got that miles of prehistoric marine sediment, and that plus pressure plus time equals oil.

1891, a couple of years later, U.S. government establishes a huge national forest named

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