Shoshone-Bannocks
Shoshone, Bannocks, and Paiutes had wintered in the Boise Valley for hundreds of years before fencing and farming cut off the ancient migrations and a Snake River dam at Swan Falls ended the salmon runs. Sho-Bans still defend many treaty claims to the Boise Valley. In 1993 the Boise City Council provided $500,000 to help settle a legal dispute over Indian claims to a foothills subdivision near Castle Rock. Historians and tribal spokesmen maintained that site above near Haines Street had been a Sho-Ban burial ground. Pictured: a Bannock matriarch (said to be 117-years old) poses with daughter and grandchildren.