What effects might this Treaty have on the Shoshone community? There would be
peace between Shoshone people and the people of the United States
. Travel routes through Shoshone territory would stay open and safe. Ferries and stage stations would also remain unmolested.
What did the Shoshone tribe believe in?
The Shoshone religion is based on belief in
supernatural power (boha)
that is acquired primarily through vision quests and dreams.
What happened to the Shoshone tribe?
In the aftermath of the Bear River Massacre,
white settlers moved unopposed into traditional Northwestern Shoshone lands
. As American settlements grew around them, the few remaining Northwestern Shoshones lost their land base and could no longer sustain their traditional nomadic lifestyle.
How did the Shoshone tribe interact with other tribes?
Shoshone bands
traded regularly with each other and also with neighboring tribes such as the Crow, Nez Perce, and Paiute tribes
. The Shoshone were especially friendly with the Paiutes, and intermarried with them frequently. The Shoshone also fought wars with other tribes.
What environment did the Shoshone live in?
The Shoshone tribe of the Great Basin
The Western Shoshone lived in
desolate environments
. The Goshute band lived on the shores of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the Panamint lived in California’s Death Valley.
- Treaties between the US and American Indian Nations (1722-1869) …
- Treaty of Versailles, 1919. …
- International Labor Convention, 1949. …
- Geneva Agreement, 1954. …
- International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), 1966.
A treaty is
a contract between nations
. Nearly four hundred treaties were signed between Indian tribes and the U.S. until 1871 when Congress passed a law (25 U.S.C. 71) that prohibited the federal government from entering into additional treaties with the Indian tribes.
George Armstrong Custer
, in violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, led a thousand-man expedition into the Black Hills. He was under U.S. government orders to find a good location for a military post.
A treaty signed at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, promises that the U.S. will provide a physician, teachers, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmiths to the Sioux Nation, and after 10 years will reimburse the tribes for education to replace any services the government withdraws.
The Shoshone, it seems,
traded with everyone, including northwest and southwest tribes
. Other Rocky Mountain and central Plains tribes also took goods to the Missouri River valley to trade for corn, pumpkin, squash and native-grown tobacco (Nicotiana quadrivalvis, Pursh).
The Shoshone of historic times were organized into
four groups
: Western, or unmounted, Shoshone, centred in Nevada; Northern, or horse, Shoshone of northern Utah and Idaho; Wind River Shoshone in western Wyoming; and Comanche in western Texas, a comparatively recent offshoot of the Wind River group.
“The Snake People” The Northern Shoshoni Indians is
a history of the Shoshoni Indian Nation
. The Northern Shoshoni were centered in present day Idaho. All seven bands of the Shoshoni tribe are described in this account. The Shoshoni flourished when they received the horse from the Comanche Indians.
Lewis and Clark Meet the Shoshone.
Although the Shoshone welcomed Lewis, they were suspicious
. They had recently been raided by another tribe. When Lewis asked them to travel to meet the rest of his expedition party, the Shoshone worried that Lewis might be leading them into a trap.
The Shoshone Native American
translated, foraged and soothed tensions for the intrepid explorers, all while carrying her infant son
. The Shoshone Native American translated, foraged and soothed tensions for the intrepid explorers, all while carrying her infant son.
August 17, 1805
Fortunate Camp, MT Clark brings the dugout canoes up the Beaverhead River and meets Lewis and the Lemhi Shoshone Indians at what they would later call Fortunate Camp.
In this treaty, signed on April 29, 1868, between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation,
the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people
.
If a party has materially violated or breached its treaty obligations,
the other parties may invoke this breach as grounds for temporarily suspending their obligations to that party under the treaty
. A material breach may also be invoked as grounds for permanently terminating the treaty itself.
Treaties are agreements among and between nations. Treaties have been used to
end wars, settle land disputes, and even estabilish new countries
.
