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Pages in category "Native American tribes in Nevada" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California;
According to Indian Affairs 1859 in Utah there were 4,500 Shoshones. Indian Affairs 1866 reported in Utah 4,500 eastern Bannock and Shoshone intermingled and 3,800 western and northwestern Shoshone as well as 2,000 Shoshone in Nevada and 2,500 Shoshone in Idaho, as well as an unspecified number in Oregon.
Washoe woman. Washoe people are the only Great Basin tribe whose language is not Numic, so they are believed to have inhabited the region prior to neighboring tribes.The Kings Beach Complex that emerged about 500 CE around Lake Tahoe and the northern Sierra Nevada are regarded as early Washoe culture.
Mohave or Mojave (Mojave: 'Aha Makhav) are a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation includes territory within the borders of California, Arizona, and Nevada.
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 consists of about 130 people, [12] of whom 31 live on an 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) reservation located at in Tooele County The Dugway Proving Grounds lies just south of Skull Valley . To the east is a nerve gas storage facility and to the north is the Magnesium Corporation plant which has had severe environmental problems.
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Members of the tribe chanted and acted out the stories to the beat of a drum with people dancing. [10] The Northern Paiute origin story, among many other important and formative legends, was passed on orally from tribal elders to younger tribe members and from grandmothers and grandfathers to grandchildren. [11]