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The Ute Bear Dance emerged on the Great Basin. The Sun Dance and Peyote religion flourished in the Great Basin, as well. [2] In 1930, the Ely Shoshone Reservation was established, followed by the Duckwater Indian Reservation in 1940. [12] Conditions for the Native American population of the Great Basin were erratic throughout the 20th century.
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
The name "Shoshone" comes from Sosoni, a Shoshone word for high-growing grasses. Some neighboring tribes call the Shoshone "Grass House People," based on their traditional homes made from sosoni. Shoshones call themselves Newe, meaning "People". [2] Meriwether Lewis recorded the tribe as the "Sosonees or snake Indians" in 1805. [2]
Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin — in the Great Basin region of the Western United States. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
The name "Comanche" is from the Ute word for them, kɨmantsi, meaning enemy. [45] The Pawnee , Osage and Navajo also became enemies of the Plains Indians by about 1840. [ 46 ] Some Ute bands fought against the Spanish and Pueblos with the Jicarilla Apache and the Comanche.
The tribes eventually hope to build a cultural center in the Boise area, Lori Edmo, the editor of the tribal newspaper called the Sho-Ban News, told the Statesman. “This is the area where we ...
Native American tribes that inhabited the Great Basin were divided between the "Great Basin" and, in the Colorado Desert region, the "California" tribal classifications. There has been a succession of indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. Paleo-Indian habitation by the Great Basin tribes began as early as 10,000 B.C. . [29]
The Chemehuevi (/ ˌ tʃ ɛ m ɪ ˈ w eɪ v i / CHEH-mih-WAY-vee) are an indigenous people of the Great Basin. They are the southernmost branch of Southern Paiute. [3] [4] [5] Today, Chemehuevi people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes: Colorado River Indian Tribes; Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation