These pages will provide an alphabetical listing for all the villages, towns, and settlements in what was the state of Nevada at the time the Handbook of American Indian of North America was written. Humboldt Indians Ichuarumpats to Itsaatiaga
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A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Ichuarumpats (I′-chu-ar′-rum-pats, ‘people of cactus plains’). A Paiute tribe formerly in or near Moapa valley, s. E. Nev., numbering 35 in 1873. Powell in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1873, 50, 1874. Itsaatiaga (It-sa′-a-ti-a-ga). A Paviotso band
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A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico. Humboldt Indians. The Paviotso living around Humboldt lake, Nev. Simpson, Rep. of Explor. Across Utah, 38, 1876.
Washo Indians (from washiu, ‘person,’ in their own language – Kroeber). A small tribe, forming a distinct linguistic family, the Washoan, which, when first known to Americans, occupied Truckee River, Nevada, as far down as the Meadows, though their right to the latter was disputed by the Mono. The Washo also held Carson river down
Shoshoni Indians, Shoeshone Indians, Shoeshone tribe. The most northerly division of the Shoshonean family. They formerly occupied west Wyoming, meeting the Ute on the south, the entire central and southern parts of Idaho, except the territory taken by the Bannock, northeast Nevada, and a small strip of Utah west of Great Salt Lake. The Snake
Shoshonean Family, Shoshonean People, Shoshonean Nation. The extent of country occupied renders this one of the most important of the linguistic families of the North American Indians. The area held by Shoshonean tribes, exceeded by the territory of only two families – the Algonquian and the Athapascan, – may thus be described: On the north
A list of Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah and Wymoning Indian reservations showing the Indian tribes the land was set aside for, the amount of acres if known, and the acts, treaties, and executive orders used to establish the reservation.
Paiute Indians. A term involved in great confusion. In common usage it has been applied at one time or another to most of the Shoshonean tribes of west Utah, northern Arizona, southern Idaho, eastern Oregon, Nevada, and eastern and southern California. The generally accepted idea is that the term originated from the word pah, ‘water,’
Navaho Indians ( pron. Na’-va-ho, from Tewa Navahú, the name referring to a large area of cultivated lands; applied to a former Tewa pueblo, and, by extension, to the Navaho, known to the Spaniards of the 17th century as Apaches de Navajo, who intruded on the Tewa domain or who lived in the vicinity, to
Agencies and Schools listed below are what were listed for the state. Slight indent after an Agency list all schools in that jurisdiction. Carson School, Nevada Post-office: Stewart, Nevada Telegraph address: Carson City, Nevada; Western Union, 3½ miles from school; thence telephone. Railroad station: Indian School, Nevada, on Virginia and Truckee Rwy., via Reno, on
Gosiute Indians (from Gossip, their chief, +Ute}. A Shoshonean tribe formerly inhabiting Utah west of Salt and Utah lakes, and east Nevada. Jacob Forney, superintendent of Indian affairs for Utah, reported in 1858 that he had visited a small tribe called the Go-sha-utes, who lived about 40 m. w. of Salt Lake City. “They are,”
The various tribes and bands of Indians of the Rocky Mountains, south of latitude 43°, who are known under this general name, occupy the elevated area of the Utah basin. They embrace all the territory of the Great South Pass between the Mississippi Valley and the waters of the Columbia, by which the land or
The following tribes at one time are recorded in history as having resided within the present state of Nevada. If the tribe name is in bold, then Nevada is the primary location known for this tribe, otherwise we provide the tribes specifics as it pertains to Nevada and then provide a link to the main
Western Shoshoni Indians. Central and western Idaho, northwestern Utah, central and northeastern Nevada, and a small territory in California north of and about Death and Panamint Valleys.
Draft Registration All hosted at NVGenWeb Archives unless otherwise noted Carson/Ormsby County Draft registration cards, completed in 1917-1918 Churchill County Draft registration cards, completed in 1917-1918 Clark County Draft registration cards, completed in 1917-1918 Douglas County Draft registration cards Elko County Draft registration cards, completed in 1917-1918 Introduction A-B-C-D-E-F G-H-I-J-K-L M-N-O-P-Q-R-S T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z Esmeralda County
Nevada Census online research should begin with what is available online for free. If this proves fruitful then congratulations! If not, then I would suggest signing up for the online census images (links to the right) where you can access all the available online Nevada census information directly from your computer at home. 1862 Churchill
Nevada Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Nevada county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Carson City Lone Mountain Cemetery (hosted at Interment.net) Following Cemeteries (hosted at Nevada Tombstone
HON. A.M. CANNON. – Mr. Cannon, like so many of our prominent men and large capitalists, began life on a farm, where his energies were devoted until he was twenty-one years old. His father was a farmer and a man of fine qualities, but had very limited means to devote to the education of his
JOHN H. BOYCE, – The vicissitudes and characteristic frontier life of this redoubtable miner and freighter are not easily expressed in a few sentences. He was born in Vermont in 1832, and in 1850 came around Cape Horn to California. The succession of his labors thereafter is thus stated; In 1851, he mined on the
SIDNEY S. BENTON. – This pioneer of Illinois, California and Washington is one of those facile, multiplex characters that give to our Western life its buoyancy. He was born in the first-named State in 1838, while Chicago was yet in her swamps, and his father was at that city in 1831, when it was a
