Tag: Owyhee
Owyhee is a census-designated place (CDP) in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 953 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Owyhee is within the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and, since about half the reservation is located in southwestern Idaho, the Nevada portion of the reservation unofficially observes Mountain Time, as does nearby Mountain City (located 12 miles southeast of Owyhee and 2 miles southeast of the reservation boundary), even though they are legally in the Pacific Time Zone.
The Tribes once freely occupied the land of their forefather and foremothers in the tri-state area of what are now Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon. This however quickly changed at the coming of the populations from Europe. Land and resources were wrestled away from the Shoshone and Paiute. Treaties were made with the United States of which some were ratified and others not. The chiefs signed all the treaties in good faith and for the survival of…
