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Bands of Shoshone people were named for their geographic homelands and for their primary food sources. Kuccuntikka or Kuchun-deka (Guchundeka', Kutsindüka, Buffalo Eaters [2] [14]), living on the eastern edges of the Great Basin along the upper Green River Valley, Big Sandy River and Wind River eastward to the Wind River Basin (Shoshone Basin) of western Wyoming and southwestward to Bear Lake ...
In 1820 Jedidiah Morse estimated the Shoshone population at 60,000 and 20,000 Eastern Shoshone. [11] According to Alexander Ross the Shoshone were on the west side of the Rocky Mountains what the Sioux were on the east side - the most powerful tribe - and he estimated that in 1855 the Shoshone numbered 36,000 people. [12]
Bands were very fluid and nomadic, and they often interacted with and intermarried other bands of Shoshone. Today the Tukudeka are enrolled in the federally recognized Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho and the Eastern Shoshone of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
Originally known as the Shoshone Indian Reservation, the Wind River Indian Reservation was established by agreement of the United States with the Eastern Shoshone Nation at the Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868, restricting the tribe from the formerly vast Shoshone territory of more than 44 million acres (180,000 km 2).
Pages in category "Eastern Shoshone Tribe" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Shoshone Tribe of Indians; W. Wind River Indian Reservation
The Shoshone-Bannock reservation is in Eastern Idaho, near Blackfoot. The Shoshone-Paiute reservation is south of Boise, straddling the Idaho-Nevada state line. The Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone ...
This category includes articles about the culture, history, people, and current issues of the Eastern, Northern, and Western Shoshone (including the Goshute), including tribes who self-designate as Shoshone.
Washakie holding a pipe. Washakie (c.1804 [1] /1810 – February 20, 1900) was a prominent leader of the Shoshone people during the mid-19th century. He was first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper, Osborne Russell.