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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Death Valley National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A thousand years later the nomadic Timbisha (formerly called "Shoshone" and also known as "Panamint" or "Koso") moved into the area and hunted game and gathered mesquite beans along with pinyon pine nuts.
Several families of Timbisha still live within the Park at Furnace Creek (Timbisha is the Native name of the village).
Timbisha, from tümpisa, "rock paint", refers to both the valley and the village located at the mouth of Furnace Creek.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_Valley_National_Park   (5288 words)

  
 The Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Homeland Report
By recommending the continued settlement of the Timbisha Shoshone at Furnace Creek, the plan recognizes that the continued presence of the Tribe will enhance the management and interpretation of park resources by providing opportunities to learn from the Tribe's traditional knowledge of the geography and ecology of the Mojave Desert.
A Timbisha Shoshone Cultural and Natural Preservation Area would be created within the park to recognize the importance of the area to the Tribe and to enable tribal members to continue to use the area for traditional practices and activities pursuant to a joint management plan.
The Timbisha Shoshone people have resided in the Furnace Creek areas prior to the establishment of Death Valley Monument in 1933 and their continued settlement was permitted, and at times encouraged by the U.S. Government, after establishment of the park unit.
www3.iwvisp.com /blm/report/qa.htm   (2010 words)

  
 "the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Timbisha Shoshone Tribe Face Eviction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe was formerly known as the Panamint Shoshone Indians of Death Valley, California.
Those Timbisha people who refused to move the new Indian Village and be "corralled like cattle," left Death Valley in seach of areas where they could continue to live their traditional way-of-life free of persecution.
The Timbisha people who remained in Death Valley essentially abandoned many of their traditional practices rather than go through the odd and humiliating process of obtaining a special use permit to carry-out activities that were once a regular part of their daily lives.
www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /news/timbisha.html   (1682 words)

  
 “Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Homeland – A draft Secretarial Report
The Timbisha Shoshone are integrally tied to the landscape of the Mojave Desert and they possess a great deal of traditional knowledge about these lands.
The Timbisha Shoshone have a long history of interaction and long-standing relationships with this area that is important to their cultural identity.
The proposed plan creates a unique partnership with the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe and federal land managers to permit collaborative efforts to learn from the Tribe’s traditional knowledge of the area, to provide for tribal land management, and to expand the interpretation of the area to include the history and culture of the Timbisha.
www3.iwvisp.com /blm/report/facts.htm   (667 words)

  
 Workers World: Native Land Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Timbisha Shoshone are the Indigenous people of the area now known as Death Valley National Park.
The Timbisha were relocated from their traditional lands in the 1930s, forced to live instead on a sparse 40-acre parcel of land within the park's boundaries.
Timbisha Chief Spokesperson Richard Boland said May 26: "The National Park Service's policy of squeezing Indian people out of the parks and off their ancestral lands must be stopped.
www.workers.org /ww/shoshone.html   (495 words)

  
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In 1994, as part of the California Desert Protection Act, Congress recognized the hardships the Timbisha have endured by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to study and identify lands that would be suitable for a reservation for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe.
A suitability study was conducted on a government-to-government basis with representatives of the Timbisha Tribe and the Department of the Interior.
The land that is central to the Timbisha's present-day existence is the 300-acre parcel at Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park.
www.doi.gov /ocl/2000/s2102.htm   (2001 words)

  
 Timbisha Ask To Halt Briggs Mine
Attorneys for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of Death Valley are appealing directly to Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt to halt the Briggs mine in eastern California, two miles from Death Valley National Park.
The tribe's contention is that they were never directly consulted, as required by law and regulation, by either the Bureau of Land Management of Inyo County, the two lead agencies cooperating on the environmental imapct report for the project.
Attorneys for the Timbisha anticipate filing a suit in Federal court charging violation of Federal trust responsiblity to the Timbisha by failing to directly consult with them, as mandated by NEPA, the National Historic Preservtion Act, among others.
www.cnie.org /NAE/docs/brgsmine.html   (833 words)

  
 Was the Timbisha tribe really here? - Hesperia Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
There is no documentable proof that the Timbisha, which was officially recognized by the federal government in 1983, ever ventured as far southwest as the Victor Valley, according to Bill Muller, a retired postmaster who recently argued his position on 960-AM radio with Rod Wilson, the tribe’s community affairs representative.
The Timbisha certainly could have visited the area, perhaps to hunt for juniper berries or other Native American staples, Lyman suggested.
Timbisha member Richard Boland wrote in a news release, “Death Valley National Park contains 80 percent of the tribe’s aboriginal homeland,” Muller said.
www.hesperiastar.com /story.php?id=356_0_1_0_M   (639 words)

  
 Timbisha Land Base « Terrain Magazine, Winter 2001 « Ecology Center
The 283-member Timbisha Shoshone tribe is hammering out an accord for housing within Death Valley National Park following a successful 16-year struggle for a new permanent land base, said tribal administrator Barbara Durham.
The 45-acre village, where new housing would replace mobile homes, is part of the Timbisha's new 7,500-acre territory on original homeland in or near Death Valley, including parts of Nevada.
Passed in November 2000, the federal legislation granting the new land also clears tribemembers' rights to gather firewood, maintain creeks and springs, and live as they had for centuries, before much of their land was designated untouchable parkland in 1933.
www.terrainmagazine.org /article.php?id=13042   (274 words)

  
 Death-Valley.us - Timbisha to San Manuel: Stay out of it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Timbisha Shoshone tribal council issued a strongly worded response to the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians last week: Stay out of it.
The testimony also attacked the Timbisha Shoshone choice of Hesperia as being motivated by a profit motive, rather than history: “A new pattern is non-Indian casino developers matching tribes with economically depressed, non-Indian communities in efforts to pull together a casino deal.
The Timbisha press release also rebuts the San Manuel argument that the latter tribe has the stronger historical ties to the Hesperia area: “The Victor Valley region was an area to which many tribal groups, including Shoshone, Serrano [including the ancestors of the San Manuel] and Chemehuevi Indians, migrated seasonally for hunting and gathering.”
www.death-valley.us /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1013   (602 words)

  
 Back to Life / In the hot red rock of Death Valley, a tribe of Shoshone Indians is reviving avenerable culture
The agreement between the Timbisha tribe and the Department of the Interior calls for a new Shoshone reservation to be created in and around Death Valley National Park.
The ``restoration'' envisioned by Esteves and other Timbisha leaders hinges on winning full rights not only to occupy what they consider to be ``a powerful and spiritual valley,'' but also to roam freely far beyond it, as the tribe once did.
The Timbisha already are finding it difficult to keep up with the demands of grant proposals and dealings with the government, Esteves said, leaving little time to dabble in the Saline Valley or other remote hot spots.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/11/SC27SC7.DTL   (2921 words)

  
 Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of Death Valley, California
As you may already know the Timbisha Tribe has been federally recognized since 1983 but was not granted a land base at the time of recognition.
Since 1998 the federal government and the Timbisha Tribe have worked hard and cooperatively to find lands that would be suitable for the Tribe.
A permanent land base for the Timbisha is long over due and you are now given the unique opportunity to make the Tribe's future a reality.
www.ienearth.org /timbisha.html   (1200 words)

  
 UNPRECEDENTED LAND ACCORD RESTORES HOPE FOR DEATH VALLEY TRIBE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Timbisha cowered, certain they were about to be spit out and their land swallowed by white men thirsty for real estate.
The Timbisha Tribal Council is considering building restaurants and motels on the land, located in California and Nevada, especially along the lonely desert stretches of Nevada's north-south U.S. Highway 95.
Some 300 Timbisha are scattered across the country, driven from their homeland by poverty.
members.aol.com /louispz/land/deathv.htm   (974 words)

  
 Death Valley NATIVE PEOPLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The word Timbisha means "red rock facepaint" and would later become the official name of the tribe.
In the 1930's, when Death Valley became a National Monument, the Timbisha were living in Grapevine Canyon, Wildrose Canyon and at Furnace Creek.
In 1983, the Timbisha Shoshone became a federally recognized Native American tribe by the government.
thesierraweb.com /sightseeing/deathvalley/dvnative.html   (728 words)

  
 Tribe Receives Trust Lands in Death Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
According to Pauline Esteves, the Timbisha Shoshone Tribal chairperson, the passage of the act is crucial to the survival of her people.
Although generally supportive of the transfer of lands to the Timbisha, some environmentalists expressed concern regarding a few details held within the legislation.
The dislocation of the Timbisha people began in the mid-19th century when ranchers and homesteaders moved into the region to provide supplies for mining camps.
www.npca.org /magazine/2001_issues/january_february/tribal_lands.asp   (710 words)

  
 Western Shoshone Defense Project
The Timbisha Shoshone were dispossessed of their ancestral lands in 1933 when President Hoover created the Death Valley National Monument.
This did not work, and the intent of Congress to create a homeland for the Timbisha Shoshone and resolve years of conflict with the federal government was frustrated.
In the second round of talks, the process has the attention and commitment of high-level policy makers in the relevant federal agencies, and this was reflected in the composition of the federal negotiating team.
www.wsdp.org /press/2002-09-25.htm   (1007 words)

  
 Constitution
The jurisdiction of the Tribe shall extend to all lands, water and resources within the exterior boundaries of what shall become the Timbisha Shoshone Indian Reservation and to such other lands, water and resources as may be thereafter acquired by the Tribe.
The charging party shall present his or her allegations and proof against the accused member of the Tribal Council, and the accused member shall be given an opportunity to reply to all charges by presenting his or her allegations and proof to the, General Council.
The ballot shall contain a space opposite such question in which the words "Yes No" shall be printed so that the voter may indicate with a mark whether he or she wishes to vote for or against the recall of the member(s) so named.
members.cox.net /gholsong/constitution.htm   (4879 words)

  
 Death-Valley.us - Timbisha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The word ‘timbisha’ refers to a red material found in the Black Mountains not far from our tribal village at Furnace Creek.
The Timbisha Homeland includes the valley and the nearby mountains, valleys, flats, meadows, and springs.
The plan negotiated between the Timbisha and the Department of the Interior will be of great assistance in bringing economic self-sufficiency, done sustainably, to my Tribe.
www.death-valley.us /article56.html   (564 words)

  
 Tuesday, January 30, 2001 - Tribes celebrate new homeland in Death Valley - Las Vegas View Neighborhood Newspapers
The homeland will include 300 acres in Furnace Creek where the Timbisha Shoshone now have their tribal headquarters, 1,000 acres at Death Valley Junction near Pahrump, 2,800 acres near the town of Lida in Esmeralda County and 2,800 acres at Scotty's Junction on U.S. Highway 95 south of Goldfield.
He recalled Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Chairwoman Pauline Esteves stood up and said they were a tribe who lived in California and had an interest in acquiring land.
The Timbisha Homeland bill was introduced by U.S. Rep. Jerry Lewis, R.-Calif. It passed the U.S. House of Representatives Oct. 17, despite some last minute holdups by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R.-Texas, who sought to halt some of the legislation by the Clinton administration, Taylor said.
www.viewnews.com /2001/VIEW-Jan-30-Tue-2001/pahrump/15291219.html   (1263 words)

  
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As the case of the Timbisha spells out, the national park process-ever since Yosemite was designated a park in 1864-has been to ignore or relocate native people, call their land a "pristine natural area" in need of protection, and then create a park, wilderness area, or preserve.
Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Administrator Richard Boland points out that the Timbisha have continued their traditional use of and relationship with the land in spite of restrictive Park Service regulations.
The Timbisha are working on a documentary film to be released in the next few months to bring their story to a wider audience.
www.nanews.org /archive/1995/nanews03.042   (9589 words)

  
 Greenaction - Timbisha Shoshone Action Alert
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe has waited over fifty (50) years to see a permanent land base established for its people, and now is the Tribe's opportunity.
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe (Tribe) is a federally recognized tribe with approximately 279 members.
In January 1998, a Federal and Tribal negotiating team was established to identify lands suitable for a reservation for the Tribe.
www.greenaction.org /timbisha/pr081800.shtml   (553 words)

  
 LETTERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
To confirm the truthfulness and correctness of the tribe's "historic occupation" claim, as outlined in the MSA, the historical (not prehistorical) record must be used as evidence.
Neither the Timbisha nor the City has offered the public any credible evidence of the tribe's occupation of any lands in the Hesperia area.
The Timbisha have misrepresented their historic occupational claim to lands in the Hesperia area in the MSA.
www.vvdailypress.com /2004/107478079318494.html   (1280 words)

  
 ICT [2000/03/29]  Timbisha -Shoshone a Step Closer to Homeland
The bill would provide the Timbisha with a permanent land base within their aboriginal homeland, an area within Death Valley National Park and other areas of California and Nevada.
Beginning in 1850, the Timbisha were driven from their land by homesteaders and ranchers, followed by mining interests.
In 1994, as part of the California Desert Protection Act, Congress recognized the Timbisha struggles by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to study and identify lands suitable for a reservation.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=895   (708 words)

  
 Timbisha come to town - Hesperia Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
When the Hesperia City Council announced the Timbisha Shoshone tribe’s intention to build a casino in Hesperia in August 2003, the resulting debate among Hesperians centered on what a casino would mean to residents of the city.
The 331 adult members of the tribe are all extended family members, adding another layer of potential conflict to the process.
The Timbisha are divided between California, Nevada and scattered throughout the rest of the country.
www.hesperiastar.com /story.php?id=P892_0_1_0_C   (625 words)

  
 Tuesday, July 04, 2000 - Building a future - Las Vegas View Neighborhood Newspapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A public comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the homeland proposal expires Aug. 1, and environmental consultant Tim Laughlin said a decision should be reached by Sept. 29.
Nearly 40 percent of enrolled tribal members are unemployed, according to the report, and more than 80 percent of the households fall below the 1993 poverty line, which lists the annual income for a family of four at $13,950.
      With regards to the Timbisha Shoshones at Furnace Creek, Esteves said there are only about 45 remaining, with the rest living in low-income housing at different Indian reservations in Bishop or Lone Pine, Calif. Esteves went on to describe a couple that is interested in opening a cafe on the proposed Indian trust lands.
www.viewnews.com /2000/VIEW-Jul-04-Tue-2000/pahrump/13880267.html   (1152 words)

  
 Timbisha Restoration Project
Meanwhile, the Timbisha Shoshone's are asking the US government to recognize their inherent rights as a Native American Indian tribe by establishing a permanent landbase for them in Death Valley National Park on the Tribe's ancestral homelands.
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe took an official Tribal stance against the Yucca Mountain project in August, passing a resolution condemning the construction and implementation of both an interim and permanent facility on lands traditionally used by the Timbisha Shoshone located in Western Shoshone Territory.
The Timbisha Shoshone people believe that the Yucca Mountain project will contaminate the Tribe's ancestral land and ground water, expose the Tribe and surrounding population areas to radiation both from the project and the transportation corridors necessary to move the fuel rods, and seriously impact the Tribe's Native lifeways and spiritual practices.
www.dickshovel.com /timup.html   (1220 words)

  
 Prehistory and History of the Timbisha Shoshone
Linguistic evidence indicates that the Panamint, the ancestors of the Timbisha Shoshone, arrived in Death Valley within the last millennium, though there are many claims that they arrived earlier.
Babbit was unsuccessful, and in September, 1998 the tribe reached an agreement with the Department of the Interior to establish a Timbisha Shoshone reservation.
The Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act was ratified in November, 2000.
www.fourdir.com /prehistory_and_history_of_the_ti.htm   (2696 words)

  
 Wind in the Buffalo Grass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
During negotiations with the federal government the Timbisha Shoshone Land Restoration Committee-which included anthropologist Dr. Catherine S. Fowler of the University of Nevada, Reno-laid the foundation for the Tribe's restoration proposal.
The Timbisha who had remained in Death Valley abandoned many of their traditional practices rather than go through what was for them an odd and humiliating process of obtaining special use permits from the Park Service to carry out activities considered a regular part of their daily lives.
In the summer when the Timbisha would leave Death Valley to escape the heat and return to their traditional summer camps, the Park Service would bulldoze vacated homes.
www.american-partisan.com /cols/alden/081000.htm   (1684 words)

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