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Shoshone around their tipi, probably taken around 1890

"Shoshone Indians at Ft. Washakie, Wyoming Indian reservation. Chief Washakie (at left) extends his right arm." Some of the Shoshones are dancing as the soldiers look on, 1892.

The Shoshone are a Native American tribe with three large divisions: the Northern, the Western and the Eastern. Several geographical locations in the western United States share the name Shoshone with the Native American tribe, including: Shoshone, California Shoshone, Idaho Shoshone County, Idaho Shoshone Basin region of Wyoming Shoshone Falls - a waterfall in Idaho Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming Other topics named Shoshone include: Shoshone language - Uto-Aztecan... Download high resolution version (887x589, 79 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (887x589, 79 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A tipi of the Nez Perce tribe, circa 1900. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1492x1028, 428 KB)Shoshone Indians at Ft. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1492x1028, 428 KB)Shoshone Indians at Ft. ... This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ...

The Northern Shoshone are concentrated in eastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and north-eastern Utah. The Eastern lived in Wyoming, northern Colorado and Montana. Conflict with the Blackfoot, Crow, Lakota, Cheyennes, and Arapahos pushed them south and westward after about 1750. The Western ranged from central Idaho, northwestern Utah, central Nevada, and in California about Death Valley and Panamint Valley. This group is sometimes called the Panamint. The Idaho groups of Western Shoshone were called Tukuaduka (sheep eaters), while the Nevada/Utah ones were called the Gosiute or Toi Ticutta (cattail eaters). For other uses, see Idaho (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Cheyenne Largest city Cheyenne Area  Ranked 10th  - Total 97,818 sq mi (253,348 km²)  - Width 280 miles (450 km)  - Length 360 miles (580 km)  - % water 0. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Official language(s) English Demonym Coloradan Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area  Ranked 8th in the US  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Blackfoot Confederacy is a name applied to four Native American tribes in the Northwestern Plains. ... The Crow, also called the Absaroka or Apsáalooke, are a tribe of Native Americans who historically lived in the Yellowstone river valley and now live on a reservation south of Billings, Montana, and the current chairman of the tribal council is Carl Venne. ... Eddie Plenty Holes, a Sioux Indian photographed about 1899. ... Cheyenne lodges with buffalo meat drying, 1870 The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains, closely allied with the Arapaho and loosely allied with the Lakota (Sioux). ... Scabby Bull, Arapaho 1806 Arapaho camp, ca. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Nevada. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For other uses, see Death Valley (disambiguation). ... The Panamint Valley is a long valley located east of the Argus Range and Slate Range, and west of the Panamint Range in eastern California, USA. The northern end of the valley is in Death Valley National Park. ...

Possibly the most famous member of the Shoshone tribe was Sacajawea who accompanied the Corps of Discovery with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their exploration of the Western United States. The estimated population of Northern and Western Shoshone was 4,500 in 1845. 3,650 Northern Shoshone and 1,201 Western Shoshone were counted in 1937 by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sacagawea (Sakakawea, Sacajawea; see below) (c. ... Lewis and Clark redirects here. ... Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774–October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark, whose mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana... {{Infobox Person | name = William Clark | image = WilliamClark. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ... The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the Department of the Interior charged with the administration and management of 55. ...

History

The Northern Shoshone fought conflicts with settlers in Idaho in the 1860s which included the Bear River Massacre and again in 1878 in the Bannock War. They fought alongside the United States Army in the 1876 Battle of the Rosebud against their traditional enemies, the Lakota and Cheyenne. Combatants United States Army Shoshone Indians Commanders Col. ... The Bannock War was a 1878 United States civil war primarily between the Bannock people and the Northern Shoshone, tribes of Native Americans, and the United States government. ... The United States Army is the largest and oldest branch of the armed forces of the United States. ... Combatants Lakota Cheyenne United States Army Shoshone Crow Commanders Crazy Horse George Crook Strength 1,500 1,300 Casualties 36 dead 63 wounded 10-28 dead 21-56 wounded The Battle of the Rosebud (also known the Battle of the Rosebud Creek) occurred June 17, 1876, in the Montana Territory... Eddie Plenty Holes, a Sioux Indian photographed about 1899. ... For other uses, see Cheyenne (disambiguation). ...

In 1911 a small group of Bannock under a leader named "Shoshone Mike" killed four ranchers in Washoe County, Nevada^[1]. A posse was formed, and on February 26, 1911, they caught up with the band, and eight of them were killed, along with one member of the posse, Ed Hogle^[2]. Three children and a woman who survived the battle were captured. The remains of some of the members of the band were repatriated from the Smithsonian Institution to the Fort Hall Idaho Shoshone-Bannock Tribe in 1994^[3]. Washoe County is a county located in the state of Nevada. ... is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... Grain elevator on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation The Fort Hall Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation of the Shoshoni and Bannock people in the U.S. state of Idaho. ...

In 1982, the Western Shoshone, who also invited "unrepresented tribes," made a declaration of sovereignty and began issuing its own passports as the Western Shoshone National Council.
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In 2008, the Shoshone Nation acquired the site of the Bear River Massacre^[4]. Combatants United States Army Shoshone Indians Commanders Col. ...

Reservations

Rabbit-Tail

• Wind River Reservation, population 2,650 Eastern Shoshone, 2,268,008 acres (9,178 km²) of reservation in Wyoming are shared with the Northern Arapaho
• Fort Hall Indian Reservation, 544,000 acres (2,201 km²) in Idaho, Lemhi and Northern Shoshone with the Bannock Indians, a Paiute band with which they have merged
• Lemhi Indian Reservation (1875–1907) in Idaho, Lemhi Shoshoni, removed to Fort Hall Reservation
• Duck Valley Indian Reservation, southern Idaho/northern Nevada, Western Shoshone
• Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation in Ely, Nevada, 111 acres (0.45 km²), 500 members
• Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation near Fallon, Nevada, 8,200 acres (33 km²), 991 members, Western Shoshone and Paiute
• Goshute Indian Reservation, 111,000 acres (449 km²) in Nevada and Utah, Western Shoshone
• Skull Valley Indian Reservation, 18,000 acres (73 km²) in Utah, Western Shoshone
• Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Nevada and Oregon, Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe
• Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Nevada, 1988 acres (8 km²), total 481 member of Shoshone, Paiute, and Washoe bands
• Duckwater Indian Reservation, located in Duckwater, Nevada, approximately 75 miles (121 km) from Ely.
• Nevada Shoshone Indian Reservation, near Carson City, Nevada, 211 members

Image File history File links Rabbit-Tail, Shoshone member of Captain Rays scout company; half-length, seated, with bracelets and ornamented vest. ... Image File history File links Rabbit-Tail, Shoshone member of Captain Rays scout company; half-length, seated, with bracelets and ornamented vest. ... Wind River Indian Reservation is a reservation shared by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes of Native Americans in central western Wyoming. ... Scabby Bull, Arapaho 1806 Arapaho camp, ca. ... Grain elevator on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation The Fort Hall Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation of the Shoshoni and Bannock people in the U.S. state of Idaho. ... For other uses, see Idaho (disambiguation). ... The Bannock are a Native American people who traditionally lived in the northern Great Basin in what is now southeastern Oregon and western Idaho. ... “Piute” redirects here. ... The Duck Valley Indian Reservation was established as a homeland for members of both the Shoshone and Paiute tribes of Native Americans. ... Ely Shoshone is an Indian reservation for the Ely Shoshone people of Nevada, located in and near the city of Ely, Nevada. ... Downtown Ely, Nevada Ely (pronounced [iːli], rhyming with freely) is a city in White Pine County, Nevada, in the United States. ... Corn Field in Fallon, NV August 2004. ... The Goshutes are a Native American tribe that once numbered 20,000. ... The Skull Valley Indian Reservation is the Goshute Indian reservation located approximately 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. ... The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony is an urban Native American Tribe comprised of members with Washoe, Paiute and Shoshone heritage. ... Washoe (Washo) The Washoe (Washo) are a Native American people who originally lived around Lake Tahoe and adjacent areas of the Great Basin. ... Western Shoshone is comprised of several Native American tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863. ... Duckwater, Nevada is located in central Nevada at approximately 38°54 North, 115°41 West, about the same latitude as the top of the slant and almost exactly parallel with Sacramento, CA. It is in Nye County, on the eastern edge of the Duckwater Indian Reservation. ... Motto: Proud of its Past. ...

References

See also

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Category:Shoshoni

• Shoshone language
• Western Shoshone traditional narratives
• Sacajawea
• Old Toby

Shoshone is a Native American language. ... Western Shoshone traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Western Shoshone people of eastern California and western Nevada. ... Sacagawea (Sakakawea, Sacajawea; see below) (c. ... Old Toby was a Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ...

External links

• Northern Shoshoni treaties
• Ely Shoshone Reservation
• Goshute Indian Reservation
• Great Basin Indian Archives
• Reno-Sparks Indian Colony
• Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada
• Timbisha Tribe of the Western Shoshone Nation
• U.S. Treaty with the Western Shoshone 1863, Ruby Valley
• Western Shoshone Defense Project