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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 name "Shoshone" comes from Sosoni, a Shoshone word for high-growing grasses. Some neighboring tribes call the Shoshone "Grass House People," based on their traditional homes made from sosoni. Shoshones call themselves Newe, meaning "People". [2] Meriwether Lewis recorded the tribe as the "Sosonees or snake Indians" in 1805. [2]
Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin — in the Great Basin region of the Western United States. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
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 ...
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 area that was once an ancestral burial ground, about 150 members of five regional American Indian tribes gathered at a park in East Boise on Friday to commemorate their ties to the Boise ...
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 ...
Paiute (/ ˈ p aɪ juː t /; also Piute) refers to three non-contiguous groups of Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin.Although their languages are related within the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages, these three languages do not form a single subgroup and they are no more closely related to each than they are to the Central Numic languages (Timbisha, Shoshoni, and Comanche) which are ...