The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada is a
federally recognized tribe
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of
Western Shoshone and
Northern Paiute
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Indians in northwestern
Nevada.
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Reservation
The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada has a reservation at in Humboldt County, Nevada. The reservation was established on June 18, 1917, and comprises two parcels of land, enclosed within the urban area of the City of Winnemucca centered on Cinnabar Street, and of rural land on the southern edge of the city west of Water Canyon Road. In 1990, 17 tribal members lived on the reservation.
Recent history
In 2007, the Winnemucca Indian Colony joined non-Natives from Utah in suing the United States to prevent the detonation of 700 tons of explosives
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at the Nevada Test Site, which is on ancestral Western Shoshone lands. In the 1940s, members of the tribe had been forcibly removed from their lands, which were taken over by the Nevada Test Site, where nuclear bombs were tested from 1951 to 1993. The tribe considers the removal and subsequent nuclear weapons testing on their lands as a violation of the 1863 Western Shoshone Treaty of Ruby Valley. The test, called Divine Strake, was eventually cancelled.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights ruled on March 10, 2006 that the lands belonged to the Winnemucca Indian Colony and other Western Shoshone tribes. The U.S. does not recognise the competence of the Committee to hear complaints from individuals about violations of the rights protected by the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
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.
Today
The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada's tribal headquarters is located in Winnemucca, Nevada. Judy Rojo is the Tribal Chairman recognized by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior. It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to American Indians and A ...
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Notable Winnemucca
*Chief Winnemucca
Winnemucca ( – 1882) (also called Wobitsawahkah, Bad Face, Winnemucca the Younger, Mubetawaka, and PoitoOntko, Gale. ''Thunder Over the Ochoco,'' Volume I: ''The Gathering Storm''. Bend, OR: Maverick Publications, Inc., 1997.) was a Northern P ...
* Sarah Winnemucca, she published the first autobiography by a Native American woman, '' Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims'' (1883),'' considered "one of the most enduring ethno-historical books written by an American Indian."
Notes
References
* Pritzker, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. .
*
Tribal Leaders Directory: 2014 Fall/Winter Edition
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 2015, .
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Federally recognized tribes in the United States