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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.
Ancestral lands of Southern Paiute groups overlaid on a map of the Colorado River and current US state boundaries. [3] [4] [5] Today, Southern Paiute communities are located at Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Moapa, in Nevada; Cedar City, Kanosh, Koosharem, Shivwits, and Indian Peaks, in Utah; at Kaibab and Willow Springs, in Arizona.
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]
Walker River Indian Reservation: Northern Paiute: 853 [1] 529.97 Churchill, Lyon, Mineral: Washoe Tribe: Washoe: 1,116 [2] 64,300 Douglas: Includes Carson Colony, Dresslerville Colony, Stewart Community and Washoe Ranch. The tribe also maintains a colony in Alpine County, California. Winnemucca Indian Colony: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone ...
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to ... Burns Paiute Indian Colony: ... Fort Sill Apache Indian Reservation: Apache: New Mexico: 0: 0 ...
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Walker Lake is the traditional home of the Walker River Paiute Tribe. The Walker River Reservation was created in 1874 and specifically included acres to be farmed. In 1924, the United States in its trust capacity for the tribe filed suit claiming that the Tribe's reserved rights to the flows of the Walker River were being impaired by upstream ...
President Barack Obama designated the monument on December 28, 2016, using his powers under the Antiquities Act, after a two-year campaign by local conservation groups, Nevada and Clark County lawmakers and the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians. [2] The designation came on the same day as the designation of Bears Ears National Monument. [8]