The Northern Shoshoni
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1980. Hardcover/dust jacket. 259pp. Inscribed. The history of the Northern Shoshoni involves an examination of not one, but four, distinct groups of Shoshoni and a related band of Northern Paiute, the Bannock.
The most northerly of the Northern Shoshoni, the Lemhi Indians, had a distinct and separate history until they chose to settle at Fort Hall in 1907. The Bannock in the Fort Hall area likewise pursued their own way until the Bannock War of 1878 curtailed their very independent course of action. The Fort Hall Shoshoni soon settled in at the Fort Hall Reservation whose history became identical with them after 1869. The same was true of the Boise and Bruneau peoples of western Idaho after they were moved to Fort Hall in 1869. The last group, composed of the several bands of Northwestern Shoshoni, continued an independent life until the 1880s when the pressure of white settlement forced nearly all of them to Fort Hall.
Northern Shoshoni history from 1880 to the present has been involved chiefly with the various agreements by which the Indians surrendered a large part of the reservation to the government, by legal conflicts with the encroaching white civilization, by the struggle to learn to become ranchers and farmers, by the frustrating battle to secure an irrigation system, by the development of mineral and timber re-sources, and by the social impact of adjusting to a new way of life through a process of education and missionary activity. Of increasing importance today is the struggle to maintain intact the remaining land area of the Reservation and to accept a new system of justice. After a hundred years of reservation life, the Shoshoni-Bannock are again gradually gaining control over their homeland and are re-establishing their identity and cultural heritage. Condition: Very good. Item #11709
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