Goshute

The family is part of the Goshute Nation, and carried signs and T-shirts with Kailey's picture on them, speaking briefly to the crowd about the pain that remains with them. Just days before the march, Kailey's killer, now-18-year-old Jayden Sterzer, was sentenced to remain in a secure youth facility until the ...

In 1997, to ensure the long-term conservation of our state fish in Utah, four federal agencies, two state agencies, and the Goshute Tribe came together to create and sign the Conservation Agreement for Bonneville Cutthroat Trout in the state of Utah. The signers of the agreement rely heavily on ongoing, ...

Some of those tribes represented are the Pueblo, the Paleo, the Archaic, the Fremont, the Ancestral Pueblo, Piute, Shoshone, Ute, Goshute and Navajo. There are nine tribes represented in this exhibit. In the exhibit they have artifacts and descriptions that represents each of the tribes. The description ...

Their demand was simple: they want to see the Director of Utah's Division of Indian Affairs (UDIA), Shirlee Silversmith, elevated to a full gubernatorial cabinet position, “rather than [just] a secondary level position.” Alongside other tribal leaders, Virgil Johnson, an elder from the Goshute tribe in western Utah, ...

Her Utah service began with a 12-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Goshute Indians residing in Ibapah, Utah. Long before obtaining her official medical title, Erickson was often referred to as "doctor" because of her medical skills and gifts for healing. These recognized ...

In 2006 we successfully fought the storage of high-level nuclear waste on the Goshute reservation. In 2008 we fought EnergySolutions' attempts to import foreign nuclear waste. And in 2009 we successfully turned back their initial secret attempts to import depleted uranium. Article continues below. Related ...

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Virgil Johnson, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, begins a press conference at the Utah Capitol on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, as Utah tribal leaders speak in support of increasing Native American voices in state government, ...

In December the BLM outlined a 10-year plan to control the population of mustangs in the Antelope, Antelope Valley, Goshute, Maverick-Medicine, Spruce-Pequop and Triple B Herd Management Areas, plus another million acres onto which the horses have spread. The area currently has 9,500 horses, ...

The group recently undertook an expedition to a heavily populated area of Guatemala, and also works with people in Summit and Wasatch counties and the Goshute reservation. Alex Bostrom, operations manager for The Hope Alliance, said the nonprofit is still seeking volunteers for its annual expedition to ...

Another film follows avian biologists as they study the migrating raptors of HawkWatch's Goshute and Manzano sites. One film explores the intersection of mountain biking and fine art, while another offers a heart-stopping demonstration of city skiing. And speaking of heart-stopping, there is more than one ...

“The tribes are united in opposition to this bill,” Virgil Johnson, an elected Goshute official who heads the Utah Tribal Leaders Council, said Tuesday at a news conference in the Utah Capitol. “As in the past, the United States government desires to come into Indian County and tell Native Americans what is ...

Inside the state capital, President Trump signed two executive orders, shrinking national monuments at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante. An action that Virgil Johnson, Chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservations, said goes against the wishes of the Native American tribes.

The Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah is currently faced with the double-edged sword of storing toxic wastes on their reserve. While the program would bring millions of dollars of revenue to the struggling reservation, it puts all residents and the environment at risk of contamination. In this instance ...

Settlers cut Native Americans off from their traditional way of life. In the interest of Manifest Destiny, the United States federal government forced Native Americans off of their land and onto reservations. Today, Utah's Shoshone, Goshute, Ute, Paiute and Navajo people live on a small piece of the land of their ...

Rupert Steele, of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, takes a photo during a tour of a petroglyph site in Box Elder County, Utah, Aug. 26, 2016. The tour was part of the 2016 Annual American Indian Meeting, an event that provides a face-to-face forum for tribal leaders and federal agencies ...

The Goshute reservations in Utah's West Desert are among the closest communities to the training range used by Hill Air Force Base – and the tribes are concerned about how a proposed expansion of the range might affect their economic development. The Air Force is proposing a 700-thousand acre ...

"Storing this waste on the Goshute land so close to Utahns and the Utah Test and Training Range just didn't make sense," the Republican senator said, alluding to one of the state's strongest arguments against the site, which would have been a couple of miles from the area, about 45 miles from Salt Lake ...