Grand Teton Association Blog

Join us August 4 – 10 at the Colter Bay Visitor Center for the Indigenous Arts & Cultural Demonstration Program featuring Antonia His Law, an Eastern Shoshone artist from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Her given name is Wahnave (Cedar Girl), given to her by my grandfather who was a medicine man of their tribe. Antonia is a Beader, and learned to bead from her mother and grandmother. Beading is a part of her life and something she can sit and bond with her mother and daughters. Knowing she can bead beautiful items for her customers and family makes her happy. Grand Teton National Park was the ancestral homeland to her Shoshone People.

The Murie Ranch in Grand Teton National Park is dubbed the birthplace of the modern conservation movement. For two decades, it was The Wilderness Society’s western headquarters. Married couples Olaus and Margaret (Mardy) Murie and Adolph and Louise Murie, prominent conservationists and ecologists, settled here. Olaus and Adolph, both wildlife biologists, were half brothers; Mardy and Louise were half sisters who spent their childhood in Fairbanks, Alaska. Olaus and Mardy met there in 1921 when Mardy was home from college. Olaus, a caribou expert, was transferred to Jackson Hole in 1927 to manage the National Elk Refuge; Mardy and their two children followed. The Muries purchased what was the STS Dude Ranch in 1945, immediately removing fences, enabling wildlife to roam freely.

Join us June 23–29 at the Colter Bay Visitor Center for the Indigenous Arts & Cultural Demonstration Program featuring Diane Trahant, a Shoshone-Bannock artist from Fort Hall Indian Reservation, and guests, Juan and Josie Broncho.