Nomadic range · approximate1500 – 1870 · 370 years
Shoshone
No editorial summary yet for Shoshone. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.
Borders & accuracy
Nomadic range
A pastoralist or hunter-gatherer range whose extent shifted constantly with seasons and alliances.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-traced from Waldman, Atlas of the North American Indian; Smithsonian Handbook vol. 11 (Great Basin)
- SNAPSHOT1850
- MATCHEDUnited States
- POLITY TYPEnomadic-range
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Taiping Rebellion1850–64World-changing · 30M dead
- Thirty Years' War1618–48World-changing · 8.0M dead
- Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750World-changing · 5.0M dead
- American Indian Wars1500–1800World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83World-changing · 5.0M dead
- French Wars of Religion1562–98World-changing · 4.0M dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1500 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Shoshone (1500 – 1870). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/shoshone · Sources & methodology