The Shoshone are a Native American tribe, who had been in the territory for thousands of years. Ancestral Shoshone people, called the Numa, lived primarily in Nevada and Utah, with some in Idaho and Wyoming. Shoshone people established seasonal villages as high as 10,000 feet in elevation in the Wind River Range, dating from 700 to 2000 BCE. These were used during piñon nut harvesting season. One, dubbed "High Rise", has 60 lodges over a space of 26 acres and was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places.
