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Official Name Ethnicity Pop. Area (Acres) County(s) Notes Duck Valley Indian Reservation: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone: 1,265 [1]: 288,000 Elko: Reservation extends into Owyhee County, Idaho.
As of 2009 the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe's headquarters is located in Fallon, Nevada. [5] The tribe is governed by a seven-person tribal council, [ 3 ] with Len George serving as the Tribal Chairperson as of 2009 [update] .
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Duck Valley Indian Reservation, southern Idaho/northern Nevada, (Western) Shoshone-Paiute Tribes; Duckwater Indian Reservation, located in Duckwater, Nevada, approximately 75 miles (121 km) from Ely. Elko Indian Colony, Elko County, Nevada; Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation in Ely, Nevada, 111 acres (0.45 km 2), 500 members
Puebloan from San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico Navajo family. The Indigenous peoples of the North American Southwest are those in the current states of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada in the western United States, and the states of Sonora and Chihuahua in northern Mexico.
Location of the Las Vegas Indian Colony. The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe has a reservation, the Las Vegas Indian Colony, at in Clark County adjacent to the northwest corner of Las Vegas. The reservation was first established in 1911 and today is 3,850 acres (1,560 ha) large.
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.
Located around the tri-point of the three states, the reservation is home to approximately 1,100 members of the federally recognized Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California, and Nevada (Mohave: Pipa Aha Macav), a federally recognized tribe of Mohave people. Native Americans occupy less than 50 percent of the Mojave reservation.