The Shoshones are a tribe of Indiens of America, alive on the territory of the the current United States. They are called also the Snake . They are close to the Paiute S, Comanches, and of the Ute S. They occupied a great area of the Grand Basin and Grandes Plains. They adopted quickly the Cheval with the arrival of the first European colonists, but entered in conflict with the tribes located more at the east which were in direct contact with the European colonists.

The most known representatives of these people were Sacagawea, which was used as guide with the forwarding of the explorers Lewis and Clark, Washakie and Pocatello, which gave its name to a city of the state of Idaho.

One divides Shoshone into three principal geographical surfaces (north, west, are). They concentrated especially in the east of Idaho, in the Wyoming, in the North-East of the Utah, the north of the Colorado and in the Montana. Conflicts opposed them to the Blackfoot S, Crows, Sioux, Cheyennes, and Arapaho S. They had to take refuge more in the south and the west in second half of the 18th century. The group of Idaho (the Tukuaduka), of the North-West of Utah, the Nevada and the California is sometimes called Panamint. The shoshones groups of north and the west are estimated at 4  500 people towards 1845.

Shoshones gave their name to a national forest of the Wyoming: national Forest of Shoshone.

Reserves

• Wind To rivet Reservation, 2  650 people in the Wyoming.
• Strong Hall Indian Reservation
• Duck To rivet Indian Reservation, in the south of Idaho and the north of Nevada
• Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation with Ely in Nevada, 500 people
• Fallon Paiute-Shoshone, close to Fallon in the Nevada, 991 people
• Goshute Indian Reservation, Nevada and Utah
• Skull Valley Indian Reservation, Utah
• Strong McDermitt Indian Reservation, Nevada and Oregon.

External English bonds

• Northern Shoshoni Treaties
• Detailed history
• Ely Shoshone
• Fallon Paiute-Shoshone
• Goshute Indians
• Shoshoni - Joshua Project