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In an effort to close a 1951 Indian Claims Commission 326-k case, the Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act of 2004 established by the United States to give the perception that the Indians have been served justice, made payment of $160 million to the Great Basin tribe for the perceived acquisition of 39,000 sq mi (100,000 km 2). The 326-k ...
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.
The Shoshone are a Native American tribe that originated in the western Great Basin and spread north and east into present-day Idaho and Wyoming. By 1500, some Eastern Shoshone had crossed the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains .
The Treaty of Ruby Valley was a 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 under this treaty but agreed to allow the U.S. the "right to traverse the area, maintain existing telegraph and stage lines, construct one railroad and engage in specified economic activities.
Bahsahwahbee is a grove of Rocky Mountain juniper trees, locally called swamp cedars, in White Pine County, Nevada, where multiple massacres of Western Shoshone people occurred in the 19th century, two by the U.S. Army and one by vigilantes. [2] [3] The name means "sacred water valley" in the Shoshoni language. [4]
In 2017, 1,499 people were enrolled in the tribe. [3] Closer to the city of Fallon the smaller and geographically detached Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Colony , at 39°29′05″N 118°45′38″W / 39.48472°N 118.76056°W / 39.48472; -118.76056 , has two separate sections that lie between downtown Fallon and Fallon Municipal Airport ...
The annual event honors the history of Native Americans ... a member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, said. ... Norm Cavanaugh of the Western Shoshone Tribe gives a prayer during the welcome ...
The Yomba Shoshone Tribe is headquartered in Austin, Nevada. [3] The tribe is governed by a democratically elected, six-person tribal council under its constitution. Tribal enrollment as a member requires a one-half degree Shoshone blood quantum (equivalent to one parent), among the highest blood quantum requirements of any tribe. [4]