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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 ...
Fort Hall Indian Reservation, 544,000 acres (2,201 km 2) in Idaho, Lemhi Shoshone with the Bannock Indians, a Paiute band with which they have merged; Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Nevada and Oregon, Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe; Goshute Indian Reservation, 111,000 acres (449 km 2) in Nevada and Utah, Western Shoshone
The tribe organized under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.Western Shoshone elected a traditional council, led by Chief Muchach Temoak and his descendants, to create the new governments; however, the United States refused to recognize the traditional council and created the Te-Moaks Bands Council.
The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe has a federal reservation, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, at , in Churchill County The reservation, established in 1887, comprises 5,540 acres (22.4 km 2 ). In 2005, 1,692 people lived on the reservation.
The Treaty of Ruby Valley was a treaty signed with the Western Shoshone in 1863, giving certain rights to the United States in the Nevada Territory.The Western Shoshone did not cede land under this treaty but agreed to allow the U.S. the "right to traverse the area, maintain existing telegraph and stage lines, construct one railroad and engage in specified economic activities.
The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley called for peace between the Western Shoshone and settlers, stipulated that no further white settlement would occur, and did not surrender any Western Shoshone land. [7] Members of the tribe found employment as ranch hands. [5] The tribe formed a new government under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. [5]
About 500 people — including representatives of the Colville Tribes in Washington, Lakota and Sioux in the Dakotas, Northern Arapaho in Wyoming, and Shoshone-Bannock in Idaho — attended the ...
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.