Qualla: Fort Hall Indian Reservation https://qualla.com/fort-hall-indian-reservation en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/8/h/fort-hall-indian-reservation-wp/fort-hall-bingham-county-idaho.jpg Qualla: Fort Hall Indian Reservation https://qualla.com/fort-hall-indian-reservation Fort Hall Indian Reservation: Introduction https://qualla.com/fort-hall-indian-reservation/ Photo credit Staplegunther at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name exists in two languages here: Fort Hall to outsiders, Pohoko'ikkatee in Shoshone. This duality captures everything about southeastern Idaho's largest reservation, where more than 5,300 enrolled members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes navigate between worlds their ancestors could never have imagined. Spread across 544,000 acres of the Snake River Plain, with the Portneuf Range rising to the east, this is land that the Shoshone and Bannock peoples fought to keep, were forced to accept, and have transformed into a model of tribal self-governance.

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/8/h/fort-hall-indian-reservation-wp/9x8h-fort-hall-indian-reservation-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fort Hall Indian Reservation: Before the Treaties https://qualla.com/fort-hall-indian-reservation/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. For generations beyond counting, the Shoshone and Bannock moved freely across what is now Idaho and the surrounding territories. They followed the seasons and the game, their world bounded only by the mountains and the plains they knew intimately. That world began to fracture in ...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/8/h/fort-hall-indian-reservation-wp/9x8h-fort-hall-indian-reservation-before-the-treaties.mp3 0:06 2 full Fort Hall Indian Reservation: Blood and Betrayal https://qualla.com/fort-hall-indian-reservation/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. January 1863 brought catastrophe. Colonel Patrick Edward Connor led troops from Fort Douglas into what became the Bear River Massacre, killing more than 400 Shoshone, including women and children, in present-day southeastern Idaho. Chief Pocatello had been warned and led his peop...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/8/h/fort-hall-indian-reservation-wp/9x8h-fort-hall-indian-reservation-blood-and-betrayal.mp3 0:06 3 full Fort Hall Indian Reservation: Wounds That Linger https://qualla.com/fort-hall-indian-reservation/ Photo credit Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain. The 20th century brought new betrayals. During World War II, the federal government took 3,300 acres of reservation land for an air base, promising to return it after the war. Instead, they sold it to nearby Pocatello for one dollar, and it became a regional airport. For decades,...

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