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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.
Prior to the 1850s, the Paiute people lived relatively peacefully with the other Native American groups. These groups included the Navajo, Ute, and Hopi peoples. [6] Though there was the occasional tension and violent outbreaks between groups, the Paiute were mainly able to live in peace with other tribes and settlers due to their loose social structure.
Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation: Western Shoshone: 133 [1] 104.99 White Pine: Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone: 620 [1] 5,540 Churchill: Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone: 689 [2] 16,354 Humboldt: Reservation extends into Malheur County, Oregon. Fort Mojave Indian ...
Burns Paiute Indian Colony: ... Fort Sill Apache Indian Reservation: Apache: New Mexico: 0: 0.017761 (0.046) ... Las Vegas Indian Colony: Southern Paiute: Nevada: 154 ...
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony. Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation. ... That's such a huge part of the Park Service mission.” ...
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The Walker River Paiute joined with the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe (two Northern Paiute bands: Kuyuidökadö (Cui Yui Ticutta): "Cui-ui-Fish-Eaters", and Tasiget tuviwarai: "Those who live amidst the mountains") in a 2016 civil rights suit in federal court against the state to secure polling places on their reservations. Otherwise members had to ...