Our Land, Our Life

Carrie and Mary Dann are elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and ranch on their Treaty homeland in north central Nevada. In 1974 the U.S. sued Carrie and Mary Dann for trespassing on U... Read allCarrie and Mary Dann are elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and ranch on their Treaty homeland in north central Nevada. In 1974 the U.S. sued Carrie and Mary Dann for trespassing on U.S. Public Land. That set off a dispute between the Danns and the United States that raged... Read allCarrie and Mary Dann are elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and ranch on their Treaty homeland in north central Nevada. In 1974 the U.S. sued Carrie and Mary Dann for trespassing on U.S. Public Land. That set off a dispute between the Danns and the United States that raged to the Supreme Court and beyond. The U.S. has also confiscated over a thousand of their l... Read all