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    Western Shoshone comprise several Shoshone tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863. They...
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  • Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming Northern Shoshone: southern Idaho Western Shoshone: Nevada, northern Utah Goshute: western Utah, eastern Nevada They traditionally...
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    Plains horse culture in contrast to Western Shoshone that maintained a Great Basin culture. The Eastern Shoshone primarily settled on the Wind River Indian...
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    Northern Shoshone are Shoshone of the Snake River Plain of southern Idaho and the northeast of the Great Basin where Idaho, Wyoming and Utah meet. They...
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    The Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada is a federally recognized tribe of Western Shoshone people in northeastern Nevada. The tribe organized...
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  • recognized as the Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone Band of California. They are known as the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe and are located in south central California...
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  • Western Shoshone traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Western Shoshone people of eastern California...
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    The Goshutes are a tribe of Western Shoshone Native Americans. There are two federally recognized Goshute tribes today: Confederated Tribes of the Goshute...
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  • The Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony is a federally recognized tribe of Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone Indians in Churchill...
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  • Yomba Shoshone Tribe of the Yomba Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Western Shoshone Indians in central Nevada. The Yomba Shoshone Tribe...
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    Yucca Mountain and surrounding lands were central in the lives of the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute peoples, who shared them for religious ceremonies...
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    19th century for the federally recognized Shoshone-Paiute Tribe. It is isolated in the high desert of the western United States, and lies on the state line...
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  • Treaty of Ruby Valley (1863) (category Western Shoshone)
    treaty signed with the Western Shoshone in 1863, giving certain rights to the United States in the Nevada Territory. The Western Shoshone did not cede land...
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    Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone peoples, whose reservation Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes...
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    2008, the company negotiated an agreement with four of five regional Western Shoshone tribes, providing financial resources for education and wellness initiatives...
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  • "Snake Indians," the settlers' term for Northern Paiute, Bannock and Western Shoshone bands who lived along the Snake River. Fighting took place in the states...
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  • Mary Dann and Carrie Dann (category Western Shoshone people)
    Dann Sisters, Mary Dann (1923–2005) and Carrie Dann (1932–2021), were Western Shoshone elders who were spiritual leaders, ranchers, and cultural, spiritual...
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  • example, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony has members with Washoe, Paiute and Shoshone heritage. The following is an incomplete list of Indian Colonies in the...
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    encountered many difficulties and was highly contested by the public, the Western Shoshone peoples, and many politicians. The project also faces strong state...
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    rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos. In some western states, notably Nevada, there are Native American areas called Indian colonies...
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    Shoshone Falls (/ʃoʊˈʃoʊn/) is a waterfall in the western United States, on the Snake River in south-central Idaho, approximately three miles (5 km) northeast...
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    The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Western Shoshone, based in central Nevada in the high desert...
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    Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin (category Western United States)
    Yakandika, Groundhog Eaters, lower Boise, Payette, and Weiser Rivers Western Shoshone people: Kusiutta, Goshute (Gosiute), Great Salt Desert and Great Salt...
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    Western Shoshone 1,265 288,000 Elko Reservation extends into Owyhee County, Idaho. Duckwater Reservation Western Shoshone 288 3,815 Nye Ely Shoshone Indian...
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    non-indigenous people in the 19th century, the region was home to groups of Western Shoshone. Established in 1905, the community was named after Montillus (Montillion)...
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  • Ned Blackhawk (category Western Shoshone people)
    Blackhawk (b. ca. 1971) is an enrolled member of the Te-Moak tribe of the Western Shoshone and a historian currently on the faculty of Yale University. In 2007...
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  • The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation (Shoshoni: So-so-goi) is a federally recognized tribe of Shoshone people, located in Box Elder County, Utah...
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  • The Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act of 2004 established the legal framework for the distribution of the "Western Shoshone Judgement Funds" stemming...
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    Lake List of drying lakes Ginny Bengston (2002). Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone Land Use in Northern Nevada: A Class I Ethnographic/Ethnohistoric Overview...
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  • agreement with leaders of the four remaining Shoshone Tribes. A preliminary injunction requested by Western Shoshone activists was placed on Barrick to prevent...
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