| Timbisha Shoshone Reservation Ethnology-Language: Panamint Shoshone Established: (1933, 1983, 1998) County: Inyo Acreage: from 40 to 10,000 Population: 300 Location: In Death Valley, in south-central California, near the Nevada Border. In September 1998 the U.S. Department of Interior reached a long negotiated agreement with the Timbisha Shoshone tribe, resolving a grievance dating back to 1933 when President Hoover took the tribe's ancestral lands to create the Death Valley National Monument. In November, 2000, President Clinton signed the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act that restored nearly 10,000 acres to the tribe. The tribe was federally recognized in 1983. Library: Timbisha's Tribal Hall is currently housed in a temporary trailer and library holdings consist of code books and other materials related to tribal governance and long-sought sovereignty. There are plans for a library as the tribe reclaims its land and builds an infrastructure that will include tribal government offices, a museum/cultural center and land management offices. Gayle Goad is the current library contact (02). |
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