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The Western Shoshone have issued their own passports since 1992. [7] In 2010, when Timbisha Shoshone Chairman Joe Kennedy and Western Shoshone elder Carrie Dann went to the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Chairman Kennedy traveled on his Western Shoshone passport. [8]
The Shoshone or Shoshoni (/ ʃ oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n i / ⓘ shoh-SHOH-nee or / ʃ ə ˈ ʃ oʊ n i / ⓘ shə-SHOH-nee), also known by the endonym Newe, are an Indigenous people of the United States with four large cultural/linguistic divisions: Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming; Northern Shoshone: southern Idaho; Western Shoshone: Nevada, northern Utah
The tribe organized under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.Western Shoshone elected a traditional council, led by Chief Muchach Temoak and his descendants, to create the new governments; however, the United States refused to recognize the traditional council and created the Te-Moaks Bands Council.
Western Shoshone traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Western Shoshone people of eastern California and western Nevada. Western Shoshone oral literature shares many of its narratives with the Western Shoshone's Numic kinsmen in the Great Basin, the Mono , Northern Paiute , Southern Paiute ...
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Western Shoshone: 288 [2] 3,815 Nye: Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation: Western Shoshone: 133 [1] 104.99 White Pine: Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone: 620 [1] 5,540 Churchill: Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone: 689 [2] 16,354 Humboldt: Reservation extends into Malheur County ...
Shoshoni, also written as Shoshoni-Gosiute and Shoshone (/ ʃ oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n i / shoh-SHOH-nee; [2] Shoshoni: soni' ta̲i̲kwappe, newe ta̲i̲kwappe or neme ta̲i̲kwappeh), is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in the Western United States by the Shoshone people.
The Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act of 2004 [1] established the legal framework for the distribution of the "Western Shoshone Judgement Funds" stemming from docket 326-K before the Indian Claims Commission. It further establishes an educational trust fund, the "Western Shoshone Educational Trust Fund" comprising the "Western Shoshone ...