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'''Various Spellings:''' Shoshone, Shoshoni | '''Various Spellings:''' Shoshone, Shoshoni | ||
'''Ancestral Homeland:''' west of Rocky Mouantains and east of the Sierra Nevada Eastern Shoshone near Grand Teton and Wind River Mountains | '''Ancestral Homeland:''' west of Rocky Mouantains and east of the Sierra Nevada Eastern Shoshone near Grand Teton and Wind River Mountains | ||
'''Population:''' '''1900:''' 7,000 '''1990:''' 9,215 | |||
'''Prominent Shoshone:''' Sacajawea joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition-1803-06 | '''Prominent Shoshone:''' Sacajawea joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition-1803-06 | ||
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==== Brief Timeline ==== | ==== Brief Timeline ==== | ||
'''1803-06:''' Lewis and Clark Expedition | *'''1782:''' Smallpox epidemic | ||
*'''1803-06:''' Lewis and Clark Expedition | |||
*'''1825:''' Jedediah Smith | |||
*'''1847:''' Mormons settled in the Great Salt Lake valley | |||
*'''1849: '''Gold in California | |||
*'''1857:''' Comstock Lode - Silver in Nevada | |||
*'''1862: '''Colonal Patrick Conner founded Fort Douglas Salt Lake City | |||
*'''1863:''' January 29, Bear River Massacre, Compaign lead by Colonal Patrick Conner, 300 soldiers, 224 indians killed only 22 soldiers killed | |||
*'''1863:''' July, Treaty | |||
*'''1869:''' Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad met at Promontory Point, Utah | |||
*'''1860-1870:''' all Shoshone bands asigned reservations | |||
*'''1878:''' a band -Sheepeaters including Bannock and Shoshone Indians uprising in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho. | |||
*'''1982:''' Western Shoshone federally recognition | |||
==== Brief History ==== | |||
==== Reservations ==== | |||
Fort Hall Reservation: in eastern Idaho, Northern Shoshone | |||
Western Shoshone Reservation in Duck Valley on the Nevada-Idaho border. | |||
Goshute Reservation in eastern Nevada | |||
Skull Valley Reservation | |||
==== Additional References to the History of the Tribe ==== | ==== Additional References to the History of the Tribe ==== | ||
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