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Seeing the tribe's dispossession, on December 30, 1911 Helen J. Stewart, owner of the pre-railroad Las Vegas Rancho, deeded 10 acres (4.0 ha) of spring-fed downtown Las Vegas land to the Paiutes, creating the Las Vegas Indian Colony. Until 1983 this was the tribe's only communal land, forming a small "town within a town" in downtown Las Vegas. [2]
The Nevada State Museum explored the springs area in 1962 and 1963 confirming that the area was home to Ice Age species as well as early North American Paleo-Indian peoples. Richard Shutler directed the project, and Vance Haynes studied the sedimentary layers, using radiocarbon dating to determine their ages. [ 7 ]
Official Name Ethnicity Pop. Area (Acres) County(s) Notes Duck Valley Indian Reservation: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone: 1,265 [1]: 288,000 Elko: Reservation extends into Owyhee County, Idaho.
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]
Native American history [ edit ] The site, also known as Nevada's "Lost City" , [ 2 ] was founded by Basketmaker people about 300 A.D., and was later occupied by other groups and the Ancestral Pueblo until 1150 A.D. [ 3 ] The site also shows signs of human occupation as early as 8000 BC.
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