The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada is a

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of Western Shoshone and

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Indians in northwestern Nevada.

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. In 2022, a court filing reported that the colony consisted of 28 tribal members.

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

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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 USA does not recognise the competence of the Committee to hear complaints from individuals about violations of the rights protected by the

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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

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. The tribe is governed by a five-person tribal council.

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 Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims'' (1883),'' considered "one of the most enduring ethno-historical books written by an American Indian."Omer Stewart, Review: "Gae Whitney Canfield, 'Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes', Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1983"
''Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology,'' 5(2), 1983, accessed 12 February 2014

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, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Winnemucca Indian Colony Of Nevada Northern Paiute Western Shoshone American Indian reservations in Nevada Native American tribes in Nevada Winnemucca, Nevada Geography of Humboldt County, Nevada History of Humboldt County, Nevada Federally recognized tribes in the United States