Land area
Land of the Shoshoni (northwestern bands) in Nevada, ceded 1879 (area 605)
- 1877
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President sets apart tract known as Carlin Farms reservation”
- 1879
Taken back by the United States
The 1899 record: “President restores Carlin Farm reservation (Executive order of May 10, 1877) to public domain”
In the record
Set apart as the Carlin Farms reservation in Nevada for the northwestern Shoshoni in 1877, then returned to the public domain in 1879. The area covers about 0 thousand acres in what is now Nevada.
The 1899 record names Shoshone (Shoshoni) as the people of this land.
Today, Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada (Four constituent bands: Battle Mountain Band; Elko Band; South Fork Band; and Wells Band) carry the history of the people named here.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Shapes come from C. C. Royce’s 1899 maps as georeferenced by the US Forest Service. They are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land. Royce recorded land the United States treated as ceded; the shape does not show a nation’s territory.
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
- Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Tule River Indian Tribe Nation government 17,030 acres (Yowlumne Hills) with tule elk reintroduction, Oct 2025
- Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California Nation government WélmeltiɁ Preserve (10,274 acres), held by the Waší·šiw Land Trust (tribal)
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
Links marked “suggested” were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Nations named for this land 11
- Bannockmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Duckwater Shoshone Tribematched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Ely Shoshone Tribe of Nevadamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Nevada and Oregonmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevadamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Shoshone (Shoshoni)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservationmatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevadamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada (Four constituent bands: Battle Mountain Band; Elko Band; South Fork Band; and Wells Band)matched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Western Shoshone (Newe)matched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
- Yomba Shoshone Tribe of the Yomba Reservation, Nevadamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1877-05-10primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1879-01-16primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Nevada (Library of Congress)primary record
- USDA Forest Service, Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States (digitized Royce maps)reference work
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 605
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1877-05-10; 1879-01-16
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Shoshoni (northwestern bands)
- States
- NV
- Counties
- Elko
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Nevada
- Geometry
- Approximate shape from Royce’s 1899 maps
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium