A WSU documentary, filmed over the course of eight years, showed research on an unratified treaty between the U.S. and the mixed-band of Shoshone, Bannock, and Sheep-Eater people.
Alicia Woodard, a part-time history graduate student, said the documentary brings to light how the federal government treated the unratified treaty and the 32,000 square mile land cession by Chief Tendoy of the mixed band as law.
The Indian Claims Commission consulted with the Shoshone Bannock tribe in 1970 to find what territories were taken.
Orlan Svingen, WSU history professor, said the commission failed to uncover the cession document in 1970, and so the mixed-band tribe was not compensated for all their land.
“It’s my hope and theirs that the federal government will provide a remedy that is fair to history, and fair to the mixed band,” he said.
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