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As permissible under the IRA, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony established its first formal council in 1934. On February 9, 1934 the elected council included three Paiute---Cleveland Cypher, Thomas Ochiho, and George Hooten, and three Washos---Willie Tondy, Jack Mahoney, and George McGinnis. Harry Sampson was selected Chairman of the Council.
The Field Matron's Cottage, also known as the Stone Building, was built circa 1925 on the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony in Sparks, Nevada. The cottage was built to support a Bureau of Indian Affairs program to instruct the 20 acres (8.1 ha) colony's Paiute and Washoe girls in sanitation and housekeeping skills. A "field matron" was provided by the ...
Seeing the tribe's dispossession, on December 30, 1911 Helen J. Stewart, owner of the pre-railroad Las Vegas Rancho, deeded 10 acres (4.0 ha) of spring-fed downtown Las Vegas land to the Paiutes, creating the Las Vegas Indian Colony. Until 1983 this was the tribe's only communal land, forming a small "town within a town" in downtown Las Vegas.
Reno-Sparks Indian Colony: Washoe, Paiute and Shoshone: 1,100 [3] 1,948 Washoe: Summit Lake Indian Reservation: Northern Paiute: 112 [2] 12,573 Humboldt: Te-Moak Tribe: Western Shoshone: 2,096 [2] 20,005.1 Elko, Lander: Includes Battle Mountain Colony, Elkon Colony, South Fork Colony and Wells Colony. Walker River Indian Reservation: Northern ...
They are federally recognized as Reno-Sparks Indian Colony. Tabussi Dükadü, Tövusidökadö, Taboosse Dukadu, Tobusi Ticutta, or Taboose-ddukaka: "Pine nut Eaters" or "Edible seed, sedge Eaters", they lived in the mountain foothills of Nevada. They are federally recognized as Yerington Paiute Tribe of the Yerington Colony and Campbell Ranch.
An Indian colony is a Native American settlement associated with an urban area. Although some of them became official Indian reservations , they differ from most reservations in that they are placed where Native Americans could find employment in mainstream American economy.
In the 1960s, John Henry Dressler helped to form the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, a liaison between tribal, state, and federal agencies. Since 1966, the council has nine representatives: two from Dresslerville Colony, two from Woodfords Colony, one from the Washoe of Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, and two from off-reservation areas. [19]
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