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A Brief History of Utah's Northwestern Shoshones!

The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is a branch of the larger group of Shoshone people that traditionally lived in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada. The Shoshone people were very mobile and skilled at hunting and gathering, migrating with each change of the season. Their language consists of Numic-speaking peoples of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Conflict between the Shoshones and white settlers and emigrants became a serious problem in the late 1850s and early 1860s, causing it to erupt in violence as one of the most destructive events in Utah's history and the largest Indian massacre in the United States.