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The Bishop Paiute Tribe, formerly known as the Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony [2] is a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha Indians of the Owens Valley, in Inyo County of eastern California. [1] As of 2022, the United States census showed the Bishop Paiute Tribe's population at 1,914.
The Big Pine Band of Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Indians of the Big Pine Reservation are a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha Indians in California . The Big Pine Reservation is located 18 miles (29 km) from Bishop, at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. The tribal headquarters is in Big Pine, California. [1]
The Northern Paiute people are a Numic tribe that has traditionally lived in the Great Basin region of the United States in what is now eastern California, western Nevada, and southeast Oregon. The Northern Paiutes' pre-contact lifestyle was well adapted to the harsh desert environment in which they lived. Each tribe or band occupied a specific ...
Location of Fort Independence Reservation. The Fort Independence Reservation(36°50′28″N118°13′44″W / 36.84111°N 118.22889°W / 36.84111; -118.22889) in Independence, is a federally recognized Indian reservationwith a total area of 356 acres (1.44 km2) in Inyo Coun. It was established in 1915.
The term "Paiute" does not refer to a single, unique, unified group of Great Basin tribes, but is a historical label comprising: Northern Paiute people of northeastern California, northwestern Nevada, eastern Oregon, and southern Idaho; Southern Paiute people of northern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah
Members of the Burns-Paiute Tribe showed attendees how to make decoys for duck hunting out of tule rush, a sedge plant that grows in marshes. Kenton Dick, the tribe’s fire chief, told the ...
The Walker River Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation located in central Nevada in the United States. It belongs to the Walker River Paiute Tribe, a federally recognized tribe of Northern Paiute people . The tribe represents two Northern Paiute bands, the larger Aga'idökadö (Agai Ticutta) (" Cutthroat trout Eaters") and the smaller ...
The tribes were forcibly dispossessed in the late 1800s when silver and gold were discovered in the mountains north and south of Boise, attracting white settlers to the area.