The Shoshone tribe encounter a territorial problem still to this day, the government manages to reduced the land they own by referring back to the outdated treaties signed a long time ago. It all began with the visits of white settlers, trying to push the Shoshone tribe western, which then resulted in the Bear River Massacre. Then resulted the chief of the Shoshone tribe to sign the Treaty of Box Elder, the government forcibly moved the tribe into their home that they live in today, the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. Katy Weiser stated in her article, “during the period between 1863 and 1939, the Eastern Shoshone and Shoshone-Bannock tribes saw their reserved lands, which once covered five states, reduced to parcels making up an area
