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Article: Shoshone Indians Fight for Nevada Land with Federal Government.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 8, 2002
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By Valerie Taliman, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 8--CRESCENT VALLEY, Nev.--Western Shoshone traditionalist, rancher and grandmother Carrie Dann has spent nearly three decades fighting the U.S. government for her people's right to live and ranch on ancestral homelands.
The struggle has not been easy.
There have been threats, harassment, helicopter surveillance and raids by armed federal agents. There were sleepless nights, months of anxiety and years of fighting a federal "regulatory cavalry" sent to force her off lands the Western Shoshone have lived on for hundreds of years.
On two ...