Western Shoshone
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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. They resided in Idaho, Nevada, California and Utah. The tribe is very closely related to the Paiute, Goshute, Bannock and Ute tribes.
Federally recognized Western Shoshone Tribes include Duckwater Shoshone Tribe (Ely, Nevada), Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada and its four Constituent Band Councils of Battle Mountain, Elko and Wells Colonies and South Fork Reservation), Timbisha Tribe of the Western Shoshone Nation (Death Valley, California region) and Yomba Western Shoshone Tribe (near Winnemucca, Nevada).
[edit] Population
Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. (See Population of Native California.) Alfred L. Kroeber (1925:883) put the combined 1770 population of the Koso (Western Shoshone), Kawaiisu, and Chemehuevi at 1,500.
Kroeber estimated the population of the Koso, Kawaiisu, and Chemehuevi in 1910 as 500.
[edit] Notable Western Shoshone
- Mary Dann
- Corbin Harney, elder and anti-nuclear activist
[edit] References
- Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C.
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