BANNOCK INDIANS

THE BANNOCK TRADITIONALLY LIVED IN THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN IN SOUTHERN IDAHO. THEY ARE RELATED TO THE PAUITE GROUPS. SOME ANTHROPOLOGISTS CONSIDER THEM CONSIDER THEM TO BE NORTHERNMOST BANDS OF THE PAUITE. THEY DEVELOPED A HORSE CULTURE IN HISTORIC TIMES THEY ARE NOTED BECAUSE OF THE BANNOCK WAR OF 1878. AFTER THE WAR TO FORT HALL RESERVATION WITH NORTHERN SHONE THESE TRIBES MERGED. THIS RESERVATION HAS 544,000 ACRES IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO.

THEY WERE ORIGINALLY WIDELY ROVING TRIBE WHICH FAVORED THEIR DISPOSITION AND DISPERSAL INTO GROUPS. BOTH MEN AND WOMEN SPEAK SHOSHONEAN LANGUAGE AND RESEMBLE THE NEZ PERCE. AFTER 1878 THE LOSS OF HUNTING GROUNDS, LOSS OF BISON HERDS AND THE FAILURE OF THE GOVERNMENT TO GIVE THEM RELIEF LED TO THE BANNOCK OUTBREAK IN 1878. THEY FINALLY GOT 2 1/2 CENTS PER DIEM TO SUBSIST ON GOODS PROVIDED BY AN APPROPRIATION. BECAUSE OF THE INSUFFICIENT FOOD THE BANNOCK LEFT THE RESERVATION IN THE SPRING AND WENT TO THE CAMAS PRAIRIE WHERE THEY KILLED SOME SETTLERS. ABOUT 1000 BANNOCK WERE CAPTURED BY GENERAL HOWARD THAT YEAR. IT CAME TO A FIGHT ON SEPTEMBER AT CLARK'S FORD WHERE 20 LODGES WERE ATTACKED AND ALL WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE KILLED. IN 1829 THEY HAD ABOUT 800 MEMBERS. BY 1869 ONLY 500. THEY ARE ALL ON THE FORT HALL RESERVATION.

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