Wyoming Cultural Groups

African Americans

 * See African American Resources for Wyoming

Basque

 * See Basque Ethnic Group

Finns
A sizable number of Finns came to work the mines in Uinta and Sweetwater counties in the late 1880s. In 1895, a group of about 600 settlers came from Iowa and Illinois to homestead reclaimed land at a place now called Emblem.

Hispanic Americans
There are a few Hispanic groups that have settled around Rock Springs and Cheyenne.

Indigenous People
Many Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Shoshoni live on the Wind River Reservation of west-central Wyoming (see Indigenous Peoples of Wyoming).
 * See Indigenous Peoples of Wyoming

There is an entire chapter in volume one of the History of Wyoming which summarizes the history of Wyoming indigenous peoples beginning on page 59. ( Bartlett, Ichabod S. History of Wyoming. Three Volumes. Chicago, Illinois: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1918. All three volumes of this book may be read online through the link to volume one for this publication at the FamilySearch Catalog.

Italians
There are small numbers of Italians that settled in Rock Springs.

Irish
Many Irish and Mexican laborers and Civil War veterans helped build the railway. Settlers from the Midwest followed the railroad into Wyoming, and built Cheyenne, Laramie, and other towns along the route.

Wyoming Political Groups
The women's sufferage movement gained considerable attention of the nation from the late 1860s through statehood. The history of this movement gives background to the lives of women living in Wyoming during this period.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Many Idaho Latter-day Saints came into Star Valley in the 1870s and 1880s. There were Latter-day Saint colonists in the Big Horn Basin by 1895, but the main body of Latter-day Saint settlers came there as an organized group from Utah and Idaho in 1900. A helpful source of information on these settlers in the Big Horn Basin is:

Welch, Charles A. History of the Big Horn Basin. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1940. (FamilySearch Library ).

General
See also United States Cultural Groups for additional resources.

Other records and histories of ethnic, racial, and religious groups in Wyoming are listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:


 * WYOMING - MINORITIES


 * WYOMING, [COUNTY] - MINORITIES


 * WYOMING, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - MINORITIES

You will also find records in the Subject Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:


 * AFRO-AMERICANS - WYOMING