Shoshone (Shoshoni)

In the record

The United States made 6 treaties and agreements that name Shoshone (Shoshoni) as a party, from Treaty of Fort Laramie (Horse Creek), 1851 to Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868 (Eastern Shoshone and Bannock).

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 15 cessions of land from Shoshone (Shoshoni): about 62 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 7 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Reservation of the Shoshoni (Western bands) in several states (area 444), about 76 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Ruby Valley (Western Shoshone), 1863.

One court case turned on its rights: Nevada v. Hicks.

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 this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.