June 22, 2022
The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has urged the Ninth Circuit to overturn a ruling that the tribe doesn't have treaty rights to hunt and fish in its aboriginal lands, saying an Idaho district judge wrongly found that the tribe had to have settled on a reservation there to retain those rights.
January 20, 2022
An Idaho federal court found the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation doesn't have off-reservation hunting and fishing rights under a 150-year-old treaty because its members didn't permanently settle on one of the two reservations discussed in the agreement.
September 13, 2021
Idaho continued Friday to press its bid for a federal judge to toss the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation's hunting and fishing rights suit, arguing the tribe is wrongfully seeking to piggyback on other tribes' treaty rights established under a 150-year-old treaty.
August 26, 2021
The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation slammed Idaho's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit seeking recognition of its federal treaty rights, saying the state wrongly ties hunting rights to permanence on reservation land.
July 29, 2021
Idaho has asked a federal judge to toss the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation's hunting and fishing rights suit, saying that two other federally recognized tribes, but not the Band, are protected by an 1868 federal treaty.