Shoshone Western Shoshone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Shoshone https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2565472 Any of several Shoshone tribes that are Indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863. They resided in Idaho, Nevada, California, and Utah. The tribes are very closely related culturally to the Paiute, Goshute, Bannock, Ute, and Timbisha tribes. They speak the Western dialect of the Shoshone language.