Timbisha
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The Timbisha ("red rock facepaint") are a Native American people who have lived in the Death Valley, California region of North America for over 1000 years.
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, part of the Western Shoshone Nation, was recognized by the US government in 1983. They had formerly been known as the Panamint Shoshone. 7500 acres of ancestral homelands were given back to the tribe in 2000 via the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act.
There are about 300 members of the tribe, approximately 50 of whom live at Furnace Creek within Death Valley National Park. Many spend the summers at Lone Pine, California in Owens Valley to the west.
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- Timbisha Shoshone Tribe
- Native People of Death Valley, from Sierra Web
- "Back to Life", Carl Hall, San Francisco Chronicle, 7/11/99
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