Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada — lands ceded, 1859–1877

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1859–1877, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 326,286 km² in 8 cessions across California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Named in the treaties as: Shoshoni · Shoshoni (Western bands) · Paiute · Western Shoshoni · Snake · Bannock · Sheepeater · Shoshoni (northwestern bands)

Cessions

Royce no.	Date	As the schedule names the parties	Sources
422	October 5, 1859	Western Shoshoni	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
444	October 1, 1863	Shoshoni (Western bands) · with Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation of Utah (Washakie)	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
540	July 3, 1868; September 26, 1872; May 21, 1887	Shoshoni · with 12 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
537	March 14, 1871; September 12, 1872	Paiute; Shoshoni; Snake · with 28 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule
575	February 12, 1875	Bannock; Sheepeater; Shoshoni · with 12 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule
589	May 15, 1875; January 28, 1876	Paiute; Shoshoni · with 28 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule
604	April 16, 1877	Shoshoni (Western bands) · with Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation of Utah (Washakie)	Royce’s schedule
605	May 10, 1877; January 16, 1879	Shoshoni (northwestern bands) · with 12 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule

Lands proven before the Indian Claims Commission

Areas on the Commission’s 1978 map that this nation, or nations it is part of, proved they held when the United States took them:

Lemhi · area 110, taken 1863–1868
Shoshone · area 111, taken 1863–1868
Western Shoshone · area 119, taken 1863–1874

Trails across these lands

Platte–Snake–Columbia corridor · 453 km within them
14 km of unnamed trails in the network

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.