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The First Fort Hall Business Council
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Article I - Tribal Government
The jurisdiction of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes shall extend to the territory within the present confines of the Fort Hall Indian reservation and to such other landswithout such boundaries as may hereafter be added thereto under any law of the U.S. except as otherwise provided by law. |
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| Article II - Membership All persons of Indian blood whose names appear on the official census roll of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes as of January 1, 1935, provided that such roll may be corrected within six months after approval of this constitution and bylaws of the Fort Hall business Council with the approval of the Secretary of Interior. |
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| Article III - Fort Hall Business Council The governing body of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes shall be a council known as the Fort Hall Business Council. The Business Council shall consist of seven council members to be elected from the Reservation at-large. |
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| Article IV Of the Fort Bridger Treaty provides, "The Indians herein named agree.. . they will make said reservations their permanent home, and they will make no permanent settlement elsewhere; but they shall have the right to hunt on the unoccupied lands of the U. s. so long as game may be found thereon, and so long as peace subsists among the whites and Indians on the borders of the hunting districts." |
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| Charley Diggie (b. 1867 d. late 1940s), a Boise Valley Sho-Ban, June Johnson (b. about 1873, d. 1945) and Sequint (b. 1876 d. 1937), Northern Shoshone. Credit: * National Archives and Records Administration, Still Picture Branch: 75-SEI-35 |
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| Subsistence Hunting and Fishing Early trappers and settlers reported the presence of Shoshone-Bannock people at the headwaters of the Salmon in technIques for harvesting fish the Stanley Basin, "they subsist upon the flesh of elk, deer and bighorns and upon salmon.." |
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| In the early 1830s, the lower reaches of the Snake and its adjoining tributaries, the Boise, Payette, and Weiser to the east and the Owyhee, Malheur and Burnt to the west continued to be highly productive fisheries for the Shoshone-Bannock people. The descriptions indicate substantial yields, sophisticated techniques for harvesting fish and large scale efforts to preserve and store the catches for trade and for subsistence in off-seasons. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charley Diggie (b. 1867 d. late 1940s), a Boise Valley Sho-Ban, June Johnson (b. about 1873, d. 1945) and Sequint (b. 1876 d. 1937), Northern Shoshone. Credit: * National Archives and Records Administration, Still Picture Branch: 75-SEI-35 |
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| Credit: Louise Dixey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Naatsi Boise (b. 1874), taken by Mary Garvey. Credit: * Idaho Museum of Natural History, Ruffner Collection: 253245. |
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| Copyright ©2006 Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. All rights reserved | |||||||||||||||||||||||||