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Duck Valley Indian Reservation

Field	Value
name	Duck Valley Indian Reservation
native_name	Tokkapatih
settlement_type	Indian reservation
image_skyline	2013-06-16 14 24 38 Entrance sign to Duck Valley Reservation along Nevada State Route 225 near Mountain City in Nevada.jpg
image_caption	Entrance sign to Duck Valley Reservation
image_map	[[File:0965R Duck Valley Reservation Locator Map.svg	150px]]
map_caption	Location of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation
image_map1	{{Location map
relief	1
label	Duck Valley Indian Reservation
lat	42.0
long	-116.14
caption	Location in the United States
width	240
area_total_km2	1,166.5
subdivision_type	Tribe
subdivision_name	Shoshone-Paiute
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Idaho and Nevada
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Owyhee County, Idaho and Elko County, Nevada
website	Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribes

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The Duck Valley Indian Reservation () was established in the 19th century for the federally recognized Shoshone-Paiute Tribe. It is isolated in the high desert of the western United States, and lies on the state line, the 42nd parallel, between Idaho and Nevada.

The reservation, in the shape of a square, is almost evenly divided in land area between the two states, with the northern 50.2 percent in southern Owyhee County, Idaho and the southern 49.8 percent in northwestern Elko County, Nevada. The total land area is 450.391 sqmi. A resident population of 1,265 persons was reported in the 2000 census, more than 80 percent of whom lived on the Nevada side.

In October 2016 the Nevada Native Nations Land Act was passed to put Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service lands into trust for six federally recognized tribes in the state. The Shoshone-Paiute Tribe had 82 acres of Forest Service land added to their reservation. Some other tribes received thousands of acres of trust lands. Gaming is prohibited on the new lands.

The only significant community on the reservation is Owyhee, Nevada, at an elevation of 5400 ft above sea level. Owyhee is nearly equidistant from the two nearest major cities: 98 mi north of Elko, Nevada, the county seat of the county by that name; and 97 mi south of Mountain Home, Idaho.{{cite web | access-date = 2015-02-05 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150206123342/http://shopaitribes.org/spt-15/component/content/article/30-what-languages-are-supported-by-joomla-15.html | archive-date = 2015-02-06 | url-status = dead

History

On April 16, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes established the Duck Valley Western Shoshone Reservation by Executive Order; it was also used for Northern Paiute people. Despite the Native Americans having a designated reservation, local settlers and some politicians tried to force the tribal members off the valuable Duck Valley lands in 1884, suggesting they should join their Western Shoshone kinsmen at the reservation at Fort Hall, Idaho. The bands' chiefs successfully resisted these efforts to be displaced from their lands.{{cite web | access-date = 2015-02-05 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150206122402/http://www.shopaitribes.org/culture/ | archive-date = 2015-02-06 | url-status = dead

Meanwhile, the Northern Paiute band joined with another branch of Shoshone in the Bannock War of 1878. Survivors were sent to a prisoner-of-war camp at the Yakama Indian Reservation in Yakima County, Washington. Upon their release, the Northern Paiute returned to the Duck Valley. President Grover Cleveland expanded the reservation by Executive Order on May 4, 1886, to accommodate the Paiute.

President William Howard Taft expanded the reservation to its current size by Executive Order on July 1, 1910. It was unusual to have two federal government actions to enlarge the reservation after it was established; most federal actions have been taken to reduce the size of Indian reservations.

The Shoshone-Paiute Tribe of Duck Valley is one of five federally recognized tribes in the state of Idaho, each of which have reservations. The others are the Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Nez Perce, and Shoshone-Bannock. It is one of several federally recognized tribes in Nevada, some of which include other Shoshone and Paiute bands.

Sister reservations

Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho
Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Oregon/Nevada
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation
Summit Lake Indian Reservation
Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
Reno-Sparks Indian Colony
Bishop paiute shoshone Reservation

Notable members

Tina Manning, d. 1979, water rights activist and wife of American Indian Movement chairman, John Trudell, 1972–1979. (She and several family members were killed in a suspicious house fire.)

Highways

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[[File:ID-51.svg|25px]] - Idaho State Highway 51 heads north to Bruneau and on to Mountain Home and Interstate 84 (indirect connection via its Business Loop).
[[File:Nevada 225.svg|25px]] - Nevada State Route 225 heads south to Elko and Interstate 80

References

[https://shoshoniproject.utah.edu/language-materials/shoshoni-dictionary/dictionary.php The University of Utah - Shoshoni Language Project - Shoshoni Dictionary]
Crum, B., Crum, E., & Dayley, J. P. (2001). Newe Hupia: Shoshoni Poetry Songs. University Press of Colorado. Pg. 213 [[doi:10.2307/j.ctt46nz00. doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt46nz00]]
[https://projects.propublica.org/represent/bills/114/hr2733 "Nevada Native Nations Land Act"] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-12-01 , Propublica website; accessed 30 November 2016)

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