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Article: Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 2005
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Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country, by John W. W. Mann. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xxii, 258 pp. $24.95 US (cloth).
In 1907, the United States government removed the Lemhi Shoshone Indians from their native home on the Salmon River in central Idaho to the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in southern Idaho. Following removal, Washington bureaucrats extinguished Lemhi tribal status by incorporating them into the Shoshone-Bannock tribe. For more than a decade now, the Lemhis have sought federal restoration of their status as a separate tribe. This book was written in support of this claim. Its author, ...