Bannock Tribe

Brief Timeline
1700's: acquired horses -- spread to Colorado, Utah, Montana and Oregon

1829: Jim Bridger established trade relations with the Bannock

1869: Fort Hall Reservation established

1878: Bannock War

1878: Sheepeater War; Sheepeaters are of Bannock and Shoshone tribes who migrated north to the Salmon River Mountains in Idaho and hunted mountain sheep as their main food.

1878: Sheepeaters sent to Fort hall Reservation with theri Bannock and Shoshone kin.

Brief History
The ancestral home of the Bannock Tribe was southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming.

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Bannock tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

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Records
Agency Records

Census and Correspondence

Vital Records


 * Fort Hall Agency, M595, births and deaths 1927-1932,FHL Film: 576497 and births and deaths1924-1934,FHL Film: 576498 and births deaths and marriages 1935-39 FHL Film: 576499

Treaties


 * July 3, 1868, at Fort Bridger

Important Web Sites
Hodge's history of the Bannock Indians.

Official tribal web site for the Shoshone-Bannock Indians.

Wikipedia article about the Bannock Tribe.