The Western Shoshone would live in roofless grass huts, hunting birds, fish and rabbits.

In 1937 the Bureau of Indian Affairs counted 3,650 Northern Shoshone and 1,201 Western Shoshone.

For the Goshute and their neighbors the Western Shoshone, game generally was so scarce that these cooperative hunts lasted only one to two weeks, at maximum six weeks.

Many of the Indians described as Pa jutes could well have been Western Shoshone or Goshutes.

A History of the Western Shoshone.

The social gathering was also a strategy session for Western Shoshones and other Indians to discuss ways to stop the government from making the mountain a nuclear dump.

The peace treaty allowed the safe passage of nontribal members through lands occupied by the Western Shoshones.

Before the arrival of non-indigenous people in the 19th century, the region was home to groups of Western Shoshone.

He was raised in Oklahoma and later moved to Nevada and lived with the Western Shoshone.

As the case proceeded, in 1979 the Indian Claims Commission awarded a $26 million land claim settlement to the Western Shoshone.