A Shoshone/Goshute Traditional Cultural Property and Cultural Landscape, Spring Valley, Nevada
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A Shoshone/Goshute Traditional Cultural Property and Cultural Landscape, Spring Valley, Nevada Prepared at the Request of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation P.O. Box 6104 Ibapah, UT 84034 Cooperating Tribes Ely Shoshone Tribe 16 Shoshone Circle Ely, NV 89310 Duckwater Shoshone Tribe P.O. Box 1400068 Duckwater, Nevada 89310 By Sylvester L. Lahren, Jr. Ph.D. Tribal Ethnographer/ Principal Investigator Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation Note: Confidential and Proprietary Report for the Goshute Tribal Council First Draft August 9, 2010 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction........................................................................................................................................... 4 Ethnographer’s Qualifications ........................................................................................................... 5 Spring Valley Nevada............................................................................................................................ 6 Prehistoric Period.............................................................................................................................. 6 Ethnographic Context........................................................................................................................ 6 Julian H. Steward 1938 ..................................................................................................................... 6 Steward’s Spring Valley Villages .............................................................................................. 6 Steward’s Village 12’s Location................................................................................................ 8 Key Ethnographic Characteristics of Village 12......................................................................... 9 Village 12’s Festival Connections With Other Villages.............................................................. 9 Festival Sites on Steward’s Figure 9 ........................................................................................ 10 Conclusions on the Centrality of Spring Valley and Village 12’s Festival Location................ 11 Winter Villages..................................................................................................................... 11 Food Resources of Spring Valley............................................................................................. 12 Pine Nuts .............................................................................................................................. 12 Hunting................................................................................................................................. 12 Agriculture............................................................................................................................ 13 Festivals/Dances...................................................................................................................... 13 Pottery .................................................................................................................................... 14 Spiritual Belief System............................................................................................................ 15 Culturally Significant Ethnographic Conclusions............................................................................. 15 Euroamerican invasion of the Area .................................................................................................... 16 1859 Simpson Invades Spring Valley.............................................................................................. 16 1860-1861: The Pony Express and Overland Mail Invasion............................................................. 17 Military Invasion of the Area........................................................................................................... 17 March 1, 1860: General Johnston Ordered to Leave Camp Floyd............................................. 17 Summer/Fall 1860................................................................................................................... 18 August 20, 1860 Cooke Assumes Command of Camp Floyd.................................................... 18 July 27, 1861: Fort Crittenden Abandoned............................................................................... 18 Reasons for Indian-Euroamerican Conflict ...................................................................................... 18 Spring Valley Ethnohistorical Sources ............................................................................................... 19 Ronald R. Bateman 1984................................................................................................................. 19 Bateman’s Spring Valley Incidents.......................................................................................... 20 Bateman’s Chronology of Conflict in Spring Valley ................................................................ 21 1860...................................................................................................................................... 21 1863...................................................................................................................................... 21 Elijah Nicolas Wilson 1910, 2005 ................................................................................................... 22 1860-1861............................................................................................................................... 22 1861 Spring Valley.................................................................................................................. 22 Wilson’s First Hand Account of a Battle/Massacre by General Johnston.................................. 22 Thompson and West 1881............................................................................................................... 23 1863: Goshute War.................................................................................................................. 23 1863, March 23: Canon Station Battle................................................................................... 24 1863, May 4: Duck Creek Battle ........................................................................................... 24 2 1863, May 6: Spring Valley Battle ........................................................................................ 24 1863, July 6: Canon Station Incident #2 ................................................................................ 24 1875 Spring Valley and the Eastern Nevada War Panic............................................................ 25 Carlin Malouf 1940......................................................................................................................... 25 Malouf on Wilson’s Massacre of 350 Indians by General Johnston.......................................... 25 Conner’s Men Massacre Friendly Indians at Coyote’s Spring .................................................. 26 Malouf Confirms Goshute’s Memory of Indians Massacred in Spring Valley........................... 26 Southern Paiute Oral History of Indians Massacred in Spring Valley............................................... 26 Indians Massacred at Spring Valley: Indian Peak 24................................................................ 26 Indians Massacred at Spring Valley and Elsewhere: Eagle Valley 2......................................... 27 Spring Valley Massacre and/or Battle Sites Analysis......................................................................... 27 Battles vs. Massacres ...................................................................................................................... 27 Wilson’s Battle/Massacre Site 1859?............................................................................................... 28 Captain Smith’s Spring Valley Battle Site 1863............................................................................... 28 Steward’s Spring Valley Village 12 Massacre Site .......................................................................... 28 Malouf’s Massacre Site................................................................................................................... 29 Martineau’s Massacre Sites............................................................................................................. 29 Spring Valley Massacre Site 1897................................................................................................... 29 Conclusions: Battle vs. Massacre Sites ............................................................................................ 30 Native Consultants .............................................................................................................................. 31 Native Consultant 1......................................................................................................................... 31 Native Consultant 2......................................................................................................................... 32 Native Consultant 3......................................................................................................................... 33 Native Consultant 4......................................................................................................................... 34 Native Consultant 5........................................................................................................................