is the shoshone people a tribe or a band
The Northwestern Band of Shoshone is a branch of the larger group of Shoshone people that cover Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada.When whites began encroaching on the area that is now Utah in the 1840s, three different groups of Northwestern Shoshones lived there.he Northwestern Band of Shoshone is a branch of the larger group of Shoshone people that cover Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada.