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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 Skull Valley Indian Reservation is located in Tooele County, Utah, [1]: 242 about halfway between the Goshute Reservation and Salt Lake City, Utah. The tribe consists of about 130 people, [ 12 ] of whom 31 live on an 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) reservation located at 40°23′15″N 112°44′09″W / 40.38750°N 112.73583°W / 40. ...
The Shoshone were sometimes called the Snake Indians by neighboring tribes and early American explorers. [2] Their peoples have become members of federally recognized tribes throughout their traditional areas of settlement, often co-located with the Northern Paiute people of the Great Basin.
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
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 ...
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 ...
Ute (/ ˈ j uː t /) are an Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico. [5] [3] Historically, their territory also included parts of Wyoming, eastern Nevada, and Arizona. Their Ute dialect is a Colorado River Numic language, part of the Uto-Aztecan language family [6]
They are in the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People. Their traditional lands include northern Nevada, southeastern Oregon, southern Idaho, and western Wyoming. Today they are enrolled in the federally recognized Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho, located on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.