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The tribe's headquarters is located in Bishop, California. The tribe is governed by an elected five-member tribal council. With over 2000 enrolled members, the Bishop Paiute community is the Fifth largest Native American tribe in California. The tribe has its own tribal court and many programs for its members.
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 ...
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 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]
Federally recognized reservations. There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [ 1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías.
Website. Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribes. The Duck Valley Indian Reservation ( Shoshoni: Tokkapatih) [ 1][ 2] was established in the 19th century for the federally recognized Shoshone - Paiute Tribe. It is isolated in the high desert of the western United States, and lies on the state line, the 42nd parallel, between Idaho and Nevada .
The Kaibab Indian Reservation is the home of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians ( Southern Paiute Language: Kai'vi'vits ), a federally recognized tribe of Southern Paiutes. The Indian reservation is located in northern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. It covers a land area of 188.75 square miles (488.9 km 2) in northeastern Mohave County and ...
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.