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  Fort Hall Indian Reservation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Founded in 1863, it is named for Fort Hall, a trading post that was an important stop along the Oregon Trail and California Trail in the middle 19th century.
The town of Fort Hall, along Interstate 15, is the largest town on the reservation.
The reservation was established by an agreement between the United States and the Shoshone in the wake of the Bear River Massacre, in which the United States Army under Colonel Patrick Edward Connor slaughtered over 200 Native Americans in present-day southeastern Idaho.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Hall_Indian_Reservation   (461 words)

  
 Lemhi Shoshone Relationship with US - Shrinking Reservation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Like the Indians themselves, they have been a characteristic of the Great West; and as, like them, they are visibly diminishing, it will be interesting to throw a glance backward through the last twenty years, and give some account of their former distribution through the country, and the limit of their western range.
Several of the Indians drew aside their blankets, showing me their lean and bony figures; and I would not any longer tempt them with a display of our merchandise to part with their wretched subsistence, when they gave as a reason that it would expose them to temporary starvation.
It also provided for the cessions of a portion of the Fort Hall reservation to the U.S. The Indians on the Lemhi reservation refused to remove to the Fort Hall reservation, and an agreement was not ratified until 1889.
www.trailtribes.org /lemhi/shrinking-reservation.htm   (929 words)

  
 Lemhi Relationship with US - Reservation and Loss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
“The Snake Indians had planned to be parties to this treaty and had come to Fort Benton several weeks previously, but owing to the delay in the arrival of the treaty goods, had found it necessary to go far to hunt and to provide grazing for their horses.
After experiencing a tour that was designed to impress the Lemhi with the grandeur and majesty of the United States, Indian Office officials persuaded Tendoy, his son Jack, and two other Lemhi leaders to sign an agreement to move from the Lemhi Valley Indian Reservation to Fort Hall.
As minorities on a reservation where Great Basin Shoshone-Bannocks outnumbered them, they were forced to enroll at Fort Hall, they received second-rate allotments as the reservation was allotted, and they quarreled with a government that was slow to respond to their request for annuities promised from the 1889 agreement.
www.trailtribes.org /lemhi/lemhi-reservation-and-loss.htm   (1772 words)

  
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No person shall be a candidate for membership in the business council unless he shall be a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation, and shall have resided in the district of his candidacy for a period of 1 year next preceding the election, and be at least 25 years of age.
This shall be freely discussed by the Indians at this general meeting and the wishes of the people may be expressed by resolutions which shall govern the future action of the business council, to be carried into effect by appropriate ordinances.
Tribal lands.-The unallotted lands of the Fort Hall Reservation, and all lands which may hereafter be acquired by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes or by the United States in trust for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, shall be held as tribal lands, and no part of such land shall be mortgaged or sold.
thorpe.ou.edu /IRA/fthallcons.html   (4112 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Shoshone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The reservation period of the Eastern Shoshones' and the Shoshone-Bannocks' history began when the United States realized that some agreement had to be reached with the Indian tribes whose territory lay astride the Oregon and California Trails.
The Fort Hall Indian Reservation of the Shoshone-Bannock tribes is located in southeastern Idaho, and the counties of Bannock, Bingham, Caribou, and Power lie within its boundaries.
Each summer on the Fort Hall Reservation and the Wind River Reservation the annual Sun Dance is held, and throughout the year tribal members engage in sweat ceremonies to pray for individuals, families, or the tribe.
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_035900_shoshone.htm   (2129 words)

  
 High Country News -- Printable -- August 3, 1998: Tribes reclaim stolen lands
This story of the transformation of Indian country was written by staff writer Greg Hanscom after visits to reservations and interviews with people across the West and in Washington, D.C. It opens on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, but it could as easily have opened on a score of other Indian nations.
As the spokesman for the Fort Hall Lease Holders, a group of 50 non-Indian farmers who work on the reservation, VanOrden is seen by many Indian landowners as the voice of the enemy.
Indians knew they were getting the short end of the deal, but few had the funds or the patience to do anything about it.
www.hcn.org /servlets/hcn.PrintableArticle?article_id=4328   (5231 words)

  
 Sho-Ban News front page
FORT HALL — “Into The West” mini series began airing on Turner Network Television (TNT) June 10 and Shoshone-Bannock tribal members Ramona Walema and Charley Plentywounds are in episodes four through six.
FORT HALL — Shoshone-Bannock Fisheries biologists report that 47 fish (8 wild and 39 hatchery fish) have been harvested at the South Fork of the Salmon River and the guideline for wild fish is still being adjusted upward.
FORT HALL — The community is invited to the home of the late Daniel Warjack on Eagle Road in Fort Hall Thursday, July 14, Friday, July 15 and Saturday, July 16 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.
www.shobannews.com   (507 words)

  
 Pocatello Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The city of "Pocatello" was named from an Indian chief of the Shoshone tribe who granted the railroad a right-of-way through the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.
Shoshone and Bannock Indian tribes inhabited southeastern Idaho for hundreds of years before the epic trek by Lewis and Clark across Idaho in 1805.
Hudson's Bay Company established one of the first permanent settlements at Fort Hall in 1834, which is only a few miles northeast of Pocatello.
www.isu.edu /isutour/pocatello/pocatello1.html   (284 words)

  
 Opinions of the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior Relating to Indian Affairs p.326-350
Instead that office instructed the superintendent at Fort Hall to use such final roll as a basis for a new roll, adding,thereto the names of children born between April 15, 1921 (the date the final roll closed), and midnight March 31, 1927, and eliminating the names of those who died within that period.
It gave the Indian tribes of Alaska the same status before the law as those of the United States, and, unless a different intention appears upon the face of the law, extends all acts of Congress, applicable and of a general nature, relating to the Indians of the United States to Alaska.
The Indians for whose benefit the reservation was created embraced at that time some 30 or 40 families who made their living by fishing, and the purpose in creating the reservation was to enable them to establish their homes there free from interference from the Whites.
thorpe.ou.edu /sol_opinions/p326-350.html   (10094 words)

  
 Shoshone - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The tribe was party to the Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868.
Wind River Reservation, population 2,650 Eastern Shoshone, 2,268,008 acres (9,178 km²) of reservation in Wyoming are shared with the Northern Arapaho
Fort Hall Indian Reservation, 544,000 acres (2,201 km²) in Idaho, Lemhi and Northern Shoshone with the Bannock Indians, a Paiute band with which they have merged
www.grohol.com /psypsych/wiki/Shoshone   (559 words)

  
 Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) conducted a cross-sectional health study at the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho to investigate concerns about the health effects on reservation residents that might be attributed to two phosphate-processing plants located near the reservation`s southern border.
A total of 515 participants -- 229 from Fort Hall and 286 from a comparison group at the Duck Valley Indian Reservation -- were interviewed in person by trained American Indian interviewers.
Approximately 100 residents of each reservation performed pulmonary function tests and provided urine specimens that were analyzed for cadmium, chromium, fluoride, and several renal biomarkers.
www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=229264   (240 words)

  
 NativeAmericanNews.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tribal members talked about how reservations were meant to be concentration camps filled with captive Native Americans, where they were not supposed to speak their native languages, which meant that they would not be able to keep alive the old traditions and language.
The Shoshone bands that were sent to the Fort Hall Indian Reservation are The Lehman, The Weiser, The Boise Valley, The Bruneau Shoshone and the North West Band of the Shoshone all were herded under armed escort out of their traditional homes.
The Fort Hall Business Council passed a resolution on September, 18, 1997 citing the tire owners for running a business without a license, violating health and sanitation rules, improper rubbish disposal and storage, unauthorized accumulation of rubbish, maintaining a public nuisance, and littering.
www.islandparknews.com /NativeAmericanNews.htm   (8050 words)

  
 The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes - Tribal History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In eastern Idaho, along Interstate 1-15 and 1-86, lies the 544,000 acre Fort Hall Indian Reservation on a small part of the land that the Shoshone and Bannock Indians have roamed for several thousand years.
In later years Fort Hall became an important supply and rest stop for the seemingly endless flow of settlers to the west.
Today the Tribes on the Fort Hall Reservation are organized as a sovereign government which provides many services to Tribal members and non-Indians with revenues from agriculture, business enterprises, tourism, and other operations.
www.sho-ban.com /history.htm   (315 words)

  
 The Fort Hall Replica Gateway to the Pacific Northwest
So it is up to us, who are reaping the benefits of some of the most dedicated, sincere and hardworking people who pioneered the Northwest, to retell their story and provide a monument to their memory.
Jack was tasked with the responsibility for the development, and directed the preliminary studies to determine the costs, outline tentative plans, and select a location for the fort.
As Chairman of the Fort Hall Replica Commission, for many years Jack planned and oversaw the building of additional internal structures, design, and collection of most of the major items in the fort.
www.forthall.net   (562 words)

  
 ATSDR - Health Consultation - Eastern Michaud Flats Contamination, Pocatello, Bannock and Power Counties, Idaho
The highest concentrations of site-related contaminants in the entire EMF study area are consistently measured on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, at a location between FMC and Interstate 86.
Residents of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation who live immediately north of Interstate 86 might also have been exposed to potentially unhealthy levels of air pollution from 1975 to the present, but this cannot be confirmed since no ambient air monitoring has ever been conducted in this area.
Notes: The Fort Hall Nonattainment Area is located in the southernmost portion of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation and does not include the town of Fort Hall.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/easternmichaud/emf_p3.html   (3622 words)

  
 Fishing Idaho: The Fort Hall Bottoms of the Snake River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fort Hall Bottoms, Fly fishing that rivals Henry's Fork and Silver Creek.
The name of this fishery is the Fort Hall Bottoms, and it rivals all the fisheries mentioned above.
The reservation in itself provides scenic viewing areas for visitors seeking undisturbed wildlife such as moose, elk, deer, wild horses and buffalo.
www.anglerguide.com /articles/125.html   (536 words)

  
 Canku Ota - NA Nation Links
The Mission of the Samish Indian Nation is to use the talents, knowledge and skills of tribal members to preserve and strengthen our culture and to ensure quality of life, prosperity, health and education for all members through progressive, diversified tribal and individual enterprises that sustain our Nation into the future.
In eastern Idaho, along Interstate I-15 and I-86, lays the 544,000 acre Fort Hall Indian Reservation on a small part of the land that the Shoshone and Bannock Indians have roamed for several thousand years.
The story of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians is the story of a peaceful people who were faced with an invasion by a society that was overwhelmingly hostile, greedy and destructive of the Indian way of life.
www.turtletrack.org /Links/NANations/CO_NANationLinks_RU.htm   (1589 words)

  
 Shoshone-Bannock Indians History
Today, the Shoshone and Bannock Tribes' Fort Hall Reservation is on potato-growing land on the upper reaches of the Snake River in southeastern Idaho.
The reservation's name, Fort Hall, comes from a trading post that was built on the tribe's wintering grounds near the Snake in the early 1800s.
The purpose of the townsite cession was to remove white people from Indian land, and to "...maintain the reservation free of whites so as not to interfere with the Indian control of the reservation." The townsite cession was 1,840 acres.
www.rootsweb.com /~idreserv/fhhist.html   (804 words)

  
 EPA - Green Book - Sulfur Dioxide Information
The revised areas are divided at the boundary between State lands and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, with one revised area consisting of State lands and the other revised area consisting of lands within the exterior boundaries of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.
EPA relates to Indian tribes, as a matter of policy and practice, on a government-to-government basis, but in all actions required to be taken by the Agency under the CAA, whether those actions involve States or Tribes, EPA is subject to requirements and limitations imposed by that statute.
Moreover, EPA is not changing the designation of ``lands within the exterior boundaries'' of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, but rather, separating an existing nonattainment area that includes both State and Tribal lands at the State-Reservation boundary.
www.epa.gov /oar/oaqps/greenbk/6359722.html   (8483 words)

  
 Indian Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The executive order established the reserve for the exclusive use of the tribes of the Agaidikas (salmon-eaters) and the Tukudikas (sheep-eaters) later known as the Lemhi-Shoshone, Sacajawea's People.
They ultimately succeeded in 1905 and in 1907 the Lemhi began what many have called the "Lemhi Trail of Tears," when we were forced removed from our ancestral homelands to the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, home of the Sho-Ban Tribes.
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www.indiansungallery.com /sacajawea.htm   (295 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Local News: 2 Native American teens ordered off reservation
BOISE, Idaho — Two American Indian teens accused of stealing $58,000 worth of silver and beadwork from a trading post on a southeastern Idaho Indian reservation will be kicked out of Indian Country on Monday.
It's the first time the 137-year-old Fort Bridger Treaty between the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and the U.S. government has been used to "exclude" minors from the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, tribal officials say.
But none of the five counties that surround the reservation was informed of the case, according to interviews with law-enforcement agencies there.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002212961_idahotribe.html   (564 words)

  
 American Indians/Bibliography
The compilers searched for Native American(s) or American Indian(s) or tribal, eliminated entries that included the word India, and limited the results to publications from 1992 to the present.
Irrigation-Canal Leakage in the Flathead Indian Reservation, Northwestern Montana.
Indian Agricultural Resources Management Act of 1991 : Joint Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, on S. and H.R. September 22, 1992, Washington, DC..
www.usda.gov /news/pubs/indians/bios.htm   (5180 words)

  
 RRT: Pg54
The Utah and Northern Railway and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation
The Fort Hall Indian Reservation had been created by presidential proclamation as a result of the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868.
At one time in 1878, word came from the Ross Fork Agency (Fort Hall) that the Indians would accept 500 head of good cattle for letting the rails cross the Reservation but no official response was made to this offer and little was heard about it again.
imnh.isu.edu /digitalatlas/geog/rrt/part3/chp7/54.htm   (624 words)

  
 Utah History To Go - Shoshone
The four remaining groups of Shoshoni are usually listed under the general name of the "Northern Shoshoni." One of these groups, the Fort Hall Shoshoni of about 1,000 people, lived together with a band of about 800 Northern Paiute known in history as the Bannock at the confluence of the Portneuf and Snake rivers.
As a result of the four-hour carnage that ensued, twenty-three soldiers lost their lives and at least 250 Shoshoni were slaughtered by the troops, including ninety women and children in what is now called the Bear River Massacre.
After several years of receiving their government annuities at Corinne, Utah, near the mouth of the Bear River, the Indians bands finally gave up their homelands in Utah and settled at Fort Hall, where their descendants live today.
historytogo.utah.gov /shoshone.html   (884 words)

  
 Indian Photographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She has worked faithfully in the discharge of her duties, not only to Christianize the Indian, but to assist and comfort the sick and needy, besides giving a home, including clothing and education to several little Indian girls.
Billy George was also one of the reservation residents who forged and strengthened ties between the Fort Hall and the Nez Perce Reservations.
Associated with the Christian missionary community, Tyhee was described by The Pocatello Tribune in 1904 as one of the most "progressive" Indians on the Fort Hall Reservation.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /VAR/bw/indianph.htm   (1826 words)

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