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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.
Hicks was a member of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribes of western Nevada and lived on tribal land. State of Nevada Game Wardens executed state and tribal search warrants for evidence that Hicks was in possession of two California Bighorn Sheep heads, a crime which had been committed off-reservation.
The Paiute in this area became known as the "Northern Paiute." They are related culturally and linguistically to the Shoshone, Bannock and other tribes of the region. 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.
The Shoshone-Paiute reservation is south of Boise, straddling the Idaho-Nevada state line. The Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone reservation sits on the Oregon-Nevada line.
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Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation near Fallon, Nevada, 8,200 acres (33 km 2), 991 members, Western Shoshone and Paiute; 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
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The California district court dismissed the tribe's complaint, holding that the tribal sovereign immunity does not preclude the search and seizure of personnel records. In 2002, the decision was reversed, with the Ninth Circuit holding that the executing of a search warrant against the Paiute-Shoshone tribe interfered with their right to make ...