Treaty

Treaty with the Boise Shoshone, 1864 (Fort Boise, unratified)

Treaty Provisions

Hunting, Fishing, Gathering

“… Sho-Sho-nees-Release all right, title, and interest, to all lands (30) Thirty miles on each side of the Boise River and to all the Country drained by the Tributaries of the Boise River from its mouth to its Source except, so much as the Government of the U.S. shall deem proper to set apart as a reservation or any other location that may be set apart for our use, with the right of equally sharing the Fisheries of said river with the Citizens of the U.S.” — (Boise Shoshone)

Present-Day Tribes

  • Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation (Boise Shoshone descendants)

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