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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.
Fort Mojave Indian Reservation: Mohave-- 5,582 Clark: Reservation extends into San Bernardino County, California and Mohave County, Arizona. Goshute Reservation: Goshute: 539 [1] 122,085 White Pine: Reservation extends into Juab and Tooele Counties in Utah. Las Vegas Indian Colony: Southern Paiute: 71 [2] 3,850 Clark: Lovelock Indian Colony ...
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony; ... Summit Lake Paiute Tribe of Nevada; T. Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada;
Moapa Indian Reservation welcome sign Rocks in the southern part of the reservation, immediately west of Valley of Fire State Park. The Moapa River Indian Reservation is located near Moapa Town, Nevada. Moapa River Indian Reservation consists of 71,954 acres (29,119 hectares). As of the census of 2010, the population was 238, up from 206 in ...
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Sep. 14—The Jewish community in Las Vegas, N.M., survived without a building to call its own for more than six decades, calling to mind Moses and the Israelites wandering in the wilderness for ...
The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe has a federal reservation, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, at , in Churchill County The reservation, established in 1887, comprises 5,540 acres (22.4 km 2 ). In 2005, 1,692 people lived on the reservation.