The Shoshone are a Native American tribe that originated in the western Great Basin and spread north and east into present-day Idaho and Wyoming. By 1500, some Eastern Shoshone had crossed the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains.

Native American History - The Uinta Valley Shoshone Tribe are indigenous to the Utah Territory, their reservation was established by an Executive Order, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The reservation lies within the Uinta-Piceance Basins of Utah and Colorado (from mountain top to mountain top).

American Primeval prominently features several Indigenous tribes throughout its story, and here is the true history of the Shoshone and the Ute.

In the spring and summer, the Northwestern Shoshones traveled around southern Idaho and throughout Utah. During these months, they spent their time gathering seeds, roots, and berries and socializing. In late summer they dug roots and hunted small game.

Mar 8, 2023 · Today Utah is home to five groups of distinct indigenous peoples: Ute, Paiute, Goshute, Shoshone and Navajo. From these groups are eight federally recognized tribes: Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Confederated Tribes of Goshute; Skull Valley Band of Goshute

With articles, books, government documents, tribal documents, oral histories, photographs, and maps pertaining to the Northwestern Shoshone, Goshute, Paiute, Utah Navajo, White Mesa Ute, and Northern Ute Indians.

Nov 20, 2012 · The Shoshone tribe were allied to the Bannock, Crow, Pawnee and Ute tribes. Their mutual enemies were the Arapaho, Sioux and the Cheyenne tribes. During the Civil War the Shoshone raided Pony Express routes, stagecoaches, wagon trains and cut telegraph lines.

When white settlers first arrived in Utah, they mistakenly called the Northwestern Shoshone Weber Utes, assuming them to be part of the Ute tribe. Experts claim that the Northwestern Shoshone were the most ecologically efficient and well adapted Indians of the American West.

Uncompahgre Ute Salmon Alabaster Ceremonial Pipe. Ute pipe styles are similar to those of the Plains Indians, with notable differences. Ute pipes are thicker and use shorter pipestems than the Plains style, and more closely resemble the pipe styles of their Northern neighbors, the Shoshone.

We acknowledge that this land, which is named for the Ute Tribe, is the traditional and ancestral homeland of the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute, and Ute Tribes. The University of Utah recognizes and respects the enduring relationship that exists between many Indigenous peoples and their traditional homelands.