Duck Valley Indian Reservation
Duck Valley Indian Reservation
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Tribe | Shoshone-Paiute |
Country | United States |
State | Idaho and Nevada |
County | Owyhee County, Idaho and Elko County, Nevada |
Area | |
• Total | 1,166.5 km2 (450.4 sq mi) |
Website | Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribes |
The Duck Valley Indian Reservation (
The reservation, in the shape of a
In October 2016 the Nevada Native Nations Land Act was passed to put Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service lands into trust for six federally recognized tribes in the state. The Shoshone-Paiute Tribe will have 82 acres (33 ha) of Forest Service land added to their reservation. Some other tribes are receiving thousands of acres of trust lands. Gaming is prohibited on the new lands.[3]
The only significant community on the reservation is Owyhee, Nevada, at an elevation of 5,400 feet (1,650 m) above sea level. Owyhee is nearly equidistant from the two nearest major cities: 98 miles (158 km) north of Elko, Nevada, the county seat of the county by that name; and 97 miles (156 km) south of Mountain Home, Idaho.[4]
History
On April 16, 1877,
Meanwhile, the Northern Paiute band joined with another branch of Shoshone in the Bannock War of 1878. Survivors were sent to a prisoner-of-war camp at the Yakama Indian Reservation in Yakima County, Washington. Upon their release, the Northern Paiute returned to the Duck Valley. President Grover Cleveland expanded the reservation by Executive Order on May 4, 1886 to accommodate the Paiute.[5]
President William Howard Taft expanded the reservation to its current size by Executive Order on July 1, 1910.[5] It was unusual to have two federal government actions to enlarge the reservation after it was established; most federal actions have been taken to reduce the size of Indian reservations.
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribe of Duck Valley is one of five federally recognized tribes in the state of Idaho, each of which have reservations. The others are the
Sister reservations
- Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho
- Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Oregon/Nevada
- Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation
- Summit Lake Indian Reservation
- Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
- Reno-Sparks Indian Colony
Notable members
- Tina Manning, d. 1979, water rights activist and wife of American Indian Movement chairman, John Trudell, 1972-1979. (She and several family members were killed in a suspicious house fire.)
Highways
- - Idaho State Highway 51 heads north to Bruneau and on to Mountain Home and Interstate 84 (indirect connection via its Business Loop).
- - Nevada State Route 225 heads south to Elko and Interstate 80
References
- ^ The University of Utah - Shoshoni Language Project - Shoshoni Dictionary
- ^ Crum, B., Crum, E., & Dayley, J. P. (2001). Newe Hupia: Shoshoni Poetry Songs. University Press of Colorado. Pg. 213 doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nz00
- ^ "Nevada Native Nations Land Act" Archived 2016-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, Propublica website; accessed 30 November 2016
- ^ "Where is Duck Valley?". Sho-Pai Tribes. Archived from the original on 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
- ^ a b c "Cultural Department". Sho-Pai Tribes. Archived from the original on 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
External links
- Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribes (official website)
- Duck Valley Indian Reservation, Idaho/Nevada United States Census Bureau