3683) The Shoshone Nevada 1 Dollar, United States of America (USA): A 1-oz Silver Shoshone Tortoise Proof Coin Celebrating the Tribe of Lewis and Clark Guide Sacagawea: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2018:
I am currently watching the Netflix Series titled - "AMERICAN PRIMIEVAL" (The Series is set in 1857 during the Utah War, and examines the
fight to gain control of the American West and the sometimes violent clash
between religion and culture in the Utah Territory.
I came across the mention of the Native American Tribe of the Shoshone Native American Tribe.
This is a brief on the Shoshone Tribe:
The Shoshone (or Shoshoni) are a Native American tribe with four
large cultural/linguistic divisions:
Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming
Northern Shoshone: Southern Idaho
Western Shoshone: Nevada, Northern Utah
Goshute: Western Utah, Eastern Nevada
They traditionally speak the Shoshoni language, part of
the Numic languages branch of the large Uto-Aztecan language family.
The
Shoshone were sometimes called the "Snake Indians" by neighboring tribes and
early American explorers.
Their peoples have become members of federally recognised
tribes throughout their traditional areas of settlement, often co-located with
the Northern Paiute people of the Great Basin.
The name "Shoshone" comes from Sosoni, a
Shoshone word for high-growing grasses. Some neighboring tribes call the
Shoshone "Grass House People," based on their traditional homes made
from sosoni. Shoshones call themselves "Newe", meaning "People".
Meriwether Lewis recorded the tribe as the "Sosonees
or snake Indians" in 1805.
The Shoshoni language is spoken by approximately 1,000
people today.
It belongs to the Central Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan
language family. Speakers are scattered from central Nevada to central
Wyoming.
The largest numbers of Shoshoni speakers live on the
federally recognised "Duck Valley Indian Reservation", located on the border of
Nevada and Idaho; and Goshute Reservation in Utah. Idaho State University also
offers Shoshoni-language classes.
The Shoshone are a Native American tribe that originated
in the western Great Basin and spread north and east into present-day Idaho and
Wyoming.
By 1500, some Eastern Shoshone had crossed the Rocky
Mountains into the Great Plains.
After 1750, warfare and pressure from the
Blackfoot, Crow, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho pushed Eastern Shoshone south
and westward.
Some of them moved as far south as Texas, emerging as the
Comanche by 1700.
As more European American settlers migrated west,
tensions rose with the indigenous people over competition for territory and
resources.
Wars occurred throughout the second half of the 19th
century.
The Northern Shoshone, led by Chief Pocatello, fought during the 1860s
against settlers in Idaho (where the city Pocatello was named for him). As more
settlers encroached on Shoshone hunting territory, the natives raided farms and
ranches for food and attacked immigrants.
The warfare resulted in the Bear River Massacre (1863)
when U.S. forces attacked and killed an estimated 250 Northwestern Shoshone,
who were at their winter encampment in present-day Franklin County, Idaho.
A large number of the dead were non-combatants, including
children, deliberately killed by the soldiers. This was the highest number of
deaths which the Shoshone suffered at the hands of United States forces. 21 US
soldiers were also killed.
During the American Civil War travellers continued to
migrate westward along the Westward Expansion Trails.
When the Shoshone, along with the Utes participated in
attacks on the mail route that ran west out of Fort Laramie, the mail route had
to be relocated south of the trail through Wyoming.
Allied with the Bannock, to whom they were related, the
Shoshone fought against the United States in the Snake War from 1864 to 1868.
They fought U.S. forces together in 1878 in the Bannock
War.
In 1876, by contrast, the Shoshone fought alongside the U.S. Army in the
Battle of the Rosebud against their traditional enemies, the Lakota and
Cheyenne.
In 1879 a band of approximately 300 Eastern Shoshone
(known as "Sheepeaters") became involved in the Sheepeater Indian
War. It was the last Indian war fought in the Pacific Northwest region of the
present-day United States.
In 2008 the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
acquired the site of the Bear River Massacre and some surrounding land. They
have become leaders in developing tribal renewable energy.
The Louisiana Purchase:
The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the land of the
young United States, but much of the territory had yet to be explored.
That is why Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were
commissioned to explore the area. To guide them, they enlisted Sacagawea, a
young woman in the Shoshone Tribe.
Sacagawea provided invaluable assistance throughout their journey and became such an important figure in American history that she now has her own dollar coin.
The Coin:
This 2018 Nevada Shoshone Desert Tortoise Silver Dollar
coin celebrates the Shoshone people, which continues to survive today.
The preservation of Native American culture is particularly poignant in a case like the Shoshone, as the number of people who speak Shoshoni, the tribe’s language, is just about 1,000 of the surviving 12,300.
PART OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN DOLLAR SERIES -- This 2018
Nevada Shoshone Desert Tortoise Silver Dollar was issued as part of the Native
American Dollar series, which is intended to raise money for and awareness of
Native American tribes.
EXQUISITE PROOF FINISH – A stunning proof finish adds
elegance to the regality of the designs. This coin was struck from 1-oz of
99.9% fine silver.
NOT LEGAL TENDER – Issues in this series have the unique
distinction of being coins without legal tender status. Each coin’s face value, “ONE DOLLAR,” is
inscribed on the obverse under the portrait, but because the minting of
currency in the United States is reserved for the federal government, the coins
are not legal tender.
ONE TIME ISSUE – Each of the coins in the Native American
Dollar series will be minted once only, meaning that they could become quite
scarce in years to come.
The Native American Mint started this Native American
Dollar series as a means of raising awareness of and money for tribes that
survive today.
PART OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN DOLLAR SERIES - This 2018 Nevada Shoshone Desert Tortoise Silver Dollar was issued as part of the Native American Dollar series, which is intended to raise money for and awareness of Native American tribes.
This coin also features a Desert Tortoise, an animal that
inhabits the areas in which the Shoshone lived – and continue to live today.
The specifications of this Coin are:
Year of Issue: 2018: Country: United States of America (USA); Metal Composition: Silver; Purity: 0.9990; Coin Quality: Proof; Denomination: 1.00 Dollar; Coin Weight:31.1 Grams or 1.00 Ounce – oz; Dimensions/Size: 39.00 mm.
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6) "Choctaw" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance California-based Native American Mint whic h struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin set issue: 2024
7) "Mohican" Culture and History, United States of Americs (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2022
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9) "Navaho" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2021
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14) "Apache" Culture and History, United States of American (USA): A set of six Native American Coins featuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin Sets issue: 2021
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18) "Fox" Culture and History, United States of America (USA): A set of six Native American Coins festuring different Tribes minted by the Torrance, California-based Native American Mint which struck a series of Indian Sovereign Nations Coins that are authorised by each Tribe: Date/Year of Coin set issue: 2021
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10) Tonto Apache Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World war I and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
11) Ho Chunk Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World war II and American History: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
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16) Osage Nation Tribe, Code Talkers, United States of America (USA): A Bronze Medal commemorates an important piece of World War I and World War II and American history: Date/Year of Medal issue: 2024
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