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Title
Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe
Description
The Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe, also known as the Toi Ticutta (cattail eaters) is located in the Lahontan Basin, in the shadow of the sacred Fox Peak Mountain.
At the foot of the Fox Peak was the terminus of the Carson River. For centuries this watershed flowed into the area now called the Carson sink. Prior to the contact period, the Paiute People enjoyed the wealth of a huge marshland with an abundance of waterfowl, fish and marsh plants. The surrounding desert and mountains also provided wild game and edible plant food. Also very important to the Paiute people were the medicinal plants in the valley and nearby mountains. To generalize the territory that the Toi Ticutta inhabited surrounds the area of present day Fallon. The Tribe ranged to the east approximately 60 miles to the west, 50 miles along the Carson River to the South approximately 30 miles and to the North approximately 40 miles.
In the early 1890’s the government moved the Fallon area Indian people onto a reservation which was divided into 160-acre allotments. As other settlers began moving into the Basin they realized that the area that the Paiute people lived was suitable for agriculture. Once again the settlers asked the government to take away more of the lands from the Paiute people and as a result from the increasing requests to take these lands, the Federal government approached the Paiute people with another proposition beginning in 1902.
Contact
- Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe
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- Fallon NV
- United States 89406
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- +1.7754237171
