Abstracts: 27th Annual Society of
Ethnobiology Conference
The Timbisha
Shoshone Homelands Act of 2000 gave the Tribe its first trust
lands,
along with the right to co-manage its former lands now within
Death Valley National
Park. Among the Tribe’s first concerns were the apparent
declining health of its
twin staple foods, the honey mesquite ...March
2004, Ethnobiology.org
Making it
up to Landless Death Valley Indians
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL
PARK, Calif. - When the strangers shimmered into view,
wearing
uniforms and guns, tribal elders feared the cavalry had finally
come to
run them off their land...www.death-valley.us,
4/22/03
Ancient Artifacts Draw Tribal Leaders To Campus
Angelica
Gonzales (left), a member of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of
Death Valley,
works with tribal Elder Grace Goad as they sort
through artifacts found in Dry Lake
Cave....UCLA Today,
2002
Addressing Past Wrongs: Indigenous Peoples
and Protected Areas; The
Right to
Restitution of Lands and Resources The park was established as a
National Monument in 1933, commencing a 67-year acrimonious
fight between
the Timbisha Shoshone and US government over ownership of the
land. Despite
recognition as an Indian tribe by the US Federal government in
1983, a permanent
land base was not simultaneously recognized...October 2002,
Forestpeoples.org
Tribe Regains Some Treasured Soil
To the casual
observer, Death Valley is a desolate tundra of mauve rocks and
mirages, salt flats and sandstone. Summer temperatures routinely
break 120
degrees, turning the valley into a blast furnace that
saps the will of all but the
hardiest European tourists...Sacramento Bee, 10/9/01
News Update 05-10-01
The
Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Council recently requested that
Interior Secretary
Gale Norton designate the sovereign nation as
an affected tribe for the proposed
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste
repository, located in Nevada. Such a determination
would allow
the Death Valley, California tribe to participate fully in the
Yucca
Mountain Project planning process. Yucca Mountain, located
50 miles east of
Death Valley and 95 miles northwest of Las
Vegas, is the Department of Energy's
proposed site for the
disposal of 77,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste from
nuclear power plants and defense activities...www.nuclearactive.org,
5/10/01
Tiny Tribe Worried About Nuclear Push
Previewing the Bush
administration's national energy policy that is scheduled to be
unveiled next week, Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday said
the push for atomic power will increase the need for a permanent
nuclear waste facility...www.indianz.com,
5/9/01
Tribe Wants in on Yucca Talks
Concerned about
health and safety, the Timbisha Shoshone council said Wednesday
it has asked Interior Secretary Gale Norton to determine the
tribe is affected by the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste
repository...Las Vegas Review Journal, 4/20/01
Tribes Celebrate New Homeland in
Death Valley
While the nation was
watching the inauguration of the 43rd president George W. Bush
in Washington D.C. on Jan. 20, members of the Timbisha Shoshone
tribe were celebrating their new homeland on a sun-splashed day
in Death Valley...The View, 1/30/01
Timbisha Shoshone Step Closer
to Land Base in Death Valley
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe is one step closer to regaining some
of their ancestral lands. The Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act
that would authorize the establishment of tribal lands in Death
Valley National Monument has passed the United States Senate...
Indian Country Today, 8/16/00
Native Americans Get Some of their Land Back from a National
Park
Dreams of the Timbisha
Shoshone people for a homeland, a base for financial
self-reliance, where they can preserve language and traditional
culture and values, are sustained in a draft law before US
Congress. The US Senate Committee in Indian Affairs heard
testimony in March 21 on bill no. S.2102 which would give the
Timbisha Shoshone a place they could legally call home. This, I
can say, is a great day," said Senator Daniel Inoyue of Hawaii,
who introduced the measure co-sponsored by California Senators
Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer...www.sdnp.org.gy,
3/29/00
Timbisha -Shoshone a Step Closer
to Homeland
Dreams of the Timbisha Shoshone for a homeland, a base for
financial self-reliance, where they can preserve language and
traditional culture and values, are sustained in a bill before
Congress...Indian Country Today, 3/29/00
Tribe seeks to regain a homeland
Death Valley is an
unfortunate name given to an area that for thousands of years
has been the lifeblood of a displaced band of Indians known as
the Timbisha Shoshone tribe...Las Vegas Review Journal, 3/22/00
Greenaction - U.S. Ecology Mercury Dumping Alert, 3-10-00
Greenaction Calls on Nevada
Department of Environmental Quality to Reject Scandal-Plagued
Poisons and Stop Nevada From Becoming an International Toxic
Dumping Ground...The Timbisha Indian Tribe would also be
affected by the transport, treatment, and disposal of this
waste...3/10/00, Greenaction
Wind in the buffalo grass
Faced with eviction
from the last remnant of its traditional homeland in Death
Valley National Park, on March 7, 1996 the Death Valley Timbisha
Shoshone Tribe found that the Park Service would be removing
them from trust land within the Park even though they had been
granted an exception by virtue of the California Desert
Protection Act...by Sam Packard, Enterstageright.com, 10/11/99
Nuclear Trust: The Radioactive Colonization of Native North
America
In 1903, the US Supreme
Court found American Indians as a racial group legally
incompetent to manage their own assets and affairs, like minor
children and the mentally deficient or deranged. Indians were to
be perpetual "wards" of the federal government. Those most
effected by the estimated 12 billion curies of radioactivity
released into the atmosphere over the past 45 years have been
the native communities lying along the Nellis perimeters:140
three Shoshone reservations, Duckwater, Yomba and
Timbisha...7/15/99, Darknightpress.org
In Death Valley, a Tribe is Reviving a Venerable Culture
Shoshone Indians
once coaxed a remarkable living from the heart of the California
desert, roaming an 11 million-acre territory for thousands of
years, yet always returning to a magical valley they called
``Timbisha``...SFGate.com, 7/11/99
UUCP Email
This matter is of
importance to the entire Shoshone Nation because it concerns
their ancestral homelands. This was made clear to the BLM
at a meeting on February 23 by representatives from the Yomba
and Wells Councils as well as by 15 other concerned local
Western Shoshone. The South Fork and Timbisha Shoshone
Councils sent letters condemning the BLM's previous issue of
unlawful Notices against Western Shoshone citizens using their
ancestral lands...4/28/99, Nanews.org
Ward Valley Ceremonial Protest Gathering
The public gathering
will focus around a Native American ceremonial event occurring
between June 15 and June 18, 1998 on public lands at the Ward
Valley landing strip and Site A of the proposed Ward Valley low
level radioactive waste facility. The activities will include a
maximum of one hundred seventy five participants. Other
organizations anticipated to participate in the gathering
include Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Colorado River Indian Tribe,
Quechan Indian Tribe, Cocopah Indian Tribe, Mohave Elders,
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), Timbisha Shoshone Indian
Tribe, Nuclear Information and Resources Service, Alliance for
Survival, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Food Not Bombs,
Shundahai Network, Concerned Citizens Against Toxics, Desert
Citizens Against Pollution, Desert Emergency Response Team,
Desert Tortoise Council, and Greenpeace...1998, www.blm.gov/ca
Timbisha Ask To Halt Briggs Mine
Attorneys for the Timbisha
Shoshone Tribe of Death Valley are appealing directly to
Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt to halt the Briggs mine
in eastern California, two miles from Death Valley National
Park. The Timbisha cite concerns about Federal agencies meeting
consultation requirements with Indian tribes after an Interior
Department decision recently relegated consultation with tribes
to that of ordinary citizens...May 1997, Thepeoplespath.net
Despair in Death Valley
Death Valley, California
(Thursday, March 7, at a meeting in Death Valley, California,
federal officials from the National Park Service and the Bureau
of Land Management told leaders of the Timbisha Shoshone tribe
that their boss, Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt, has
decided to throw the tribe off the last remnant of its
traditional homelands in Death Valley. The Secretary will force
the tribe to give up the tiny 40 acre camp in Death Valley it
was relocated to when President Hoover took the tribe's land
away in 1933 to establish the Death Valley National Monument...www.native-net.org,
3/19/96
Nevada Journal Historical
Barbarism
Faced with eviction
from the last remnant of its traditional homeland in Death
Valley National Park, on March 7, 1996 the Death Valley Timbisha
Shoshone Tribe found that the Park Service would be removing
them from trust land within the park...Nevada Journal:
Historical Barbarism
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