Shoshone Paiute History 1

so in the fall of 1819 famous fur hunter donald mckenzie entered the camp of ten thousand shoshone paiute and banning along the boise river the camp was seven miles long located on both sides of the river and reached from table rock to eagle island the original people had congregated for social and economic changes between the closely related anubic language tribes remnants of this group now live on the dhak valley indian reservation before other peoples came they shared this land before maps divided the lands and policies confined first nations to the reservations the shoshone and paiute peoples shared the resources that became the tri-state area of idaho oregon and nevada historically the bands of the dug valley reservation utilize the area of the snake river plain north to the sawtooth mountains from new meadows and hell's canyon west to the malheur river area in oregon and south of the humboldt river area in nevada while the bands of both tribes moved around the region in these lands they would come together as the patterns of hunting and gathering brought them to the same place as the cycle of time played out as the creator had intended let me explain first that the shoshone paiute tribes are several tribes that were brought here on this reservation first of all there was the western shoshones from the south in nevada and that was where the the this reservation first was set aside for the western shoshone people and then there were the payut people that were moved here by treaty from the paradise valley winnemucca area and then also after the bannock war of 1878 came the northern paiute people after their release from fort simco washington and yakima and also there's the boise and the bruno valley shoshone that came here and some of our people now reside in the fort hall area and a lot of our people were up in the salmon river area as well and they are referred to as alumni people in our oral histories our people roam throughout our homeland we state lines did not exist at that time and of course when the when the salmon were running a lot of our people were attracted to the snake river and in the winter time they went down there because up here we're about three thousand feet higher so many times nowadays when we talk with agencies and states they they refer to us as different people but in reality we're all related in some way a lot of the people were pushed in different directions uh people from weezer area boise valley area a lot of them went to fort hall a lot of them came here and as i say the northern paiutes came here so that's how we ended up here on on the duck valley reservation as the shoshone paiute tribes but we are of course shoshone payu people but we all came from different areas once the non-indians came to their lands the shoshone and paiute had similar unfortunate experiences as other tribal groups with these new peoples the travelers on the oregon trail as well as the california trail cut through their territories devastating the land and resources of the tribes when these non-indian people got to a place called three island crossing on the snake river these folks were really in terrible terrible shape and our people uh helped them you know took care of them and our way of medicine and lifestyle helped them to survive and brought them along where they continued on into oregon and a lot of them stayed throughout the snake river plain and the boise bruno valley areas frequent confrontations occurred during the immigration and ultimate occupation of prime lands of the region the discovery of gold in the boise basin brought a flood of miners in 1862 in 1863 fort boise was constructed and the city of boise sprang up the treaty of fort boise was signed on october 10 1864 which granted the boise river valley to the settlers the bruno valley treaty of april 12 1866 seeded most all of southwest idaho territory to the united states during this period vigilantes had placed the bounty on indian scalps and hunting indians became the order of the day in february of 1866. one hundred dollars for each male scalp fifty dollars for a female scale and twenty five dollars for each child's scalp and we became involved in what's called the banach war of 1878. everybody that was involved in that war the only way that they survived was to the owahi canyonland became a sanctuary for our people to survive because of the the great difficulty that the military had trying to flush our people out of those areas and we're able to stay alive because of those lands and they're very important to us at this point in time as sacred areas the western shoshone of northern nevada signed a peace treaty in 1863 which allowed for the traversing and settlement of lands in the nevada territory the western shoshone were granted duck valley as their reservation in 1877. duck valley was historically a joint use area of the shoshone and paiute nearly a decade later the paiute joined them on the reservation following release from a prisoner of war camp as a result of participation in the banning war of 1878 there was a very horrible things that happened to our people such as they they had stuck two american flags in the ground and forced our people to march between them after they had skewered the children babies on those flags those flag poles and our people had to walk through that you know to for the military to let them know that if they tried anything on that force march you know that death would be the end result for them a lot of our people suffered terribly the elders that fell on the trail were our people weren't allowed to help them or pick them up they could only be forced to jump over them step over and they were left there to to die to freeze to death and that's what

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Published: Sat Jun 13 2009