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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.
When the military outpost was closed in 1889, the Military Reservation was adapted as the Fort McDermitt Indian Agency. Northern Paiute and Shoshone were settled here. In 1936 the federal government established an Indian reservation to support the tribe's organizing as the Paiute and Shoshone Tribe under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.
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.
Norm Cavanaugh of the Western Shoshone Tribe gives a prayer during the welcome ceremony for the Return of the Original Boise Valley People event Thursday outside City Hall.
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.
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]