The Desert of the Shoshone

Panamint Valley

Panamint Range

23 July 2007

by Housewife4Palestine

In the days before reservation’s of the Native American’s, when they felt they could still hold their heads up with pride. This was the time of the Great Indian Wars and what became known as the Western Expansion by the Europeans heading towards the area’s of the western coast.

Many had to cross a great desert known as “Death Valley,” which as history tells it many people traveling by wagon train perished trying to cross this desert; do to running out of water and food.

There were people that lived in this desert along an area known as the “Panamint Range,” they where called “The Shoshone Indians.”

The Shoshone braves as young men, use to sit on top of the hills and watch the wagon trains pass having to stay hidden from the Europeans view; because they knew from pass experience they would be killed by those within the wagon trains.

What caused great sorrow for the Shoshone people and this particular incident was passed down from generation to generation was relayed to me by a Palestinian woman that had lived in American as a young girl among these people.

As these young braves having to hide in silence upon the hills watching the countless people dying in the wagon trains and not being able to help them, at the cost of their own lives.

For what the Europeans did not know, when they past the mountains of this range just over the hill was an oasis of food and a spring of water that would have saved them, but the sad part was, the two people who could have helped each other, but because of propaganda in the East and lack of understanding this was fruitless.

The two people had to stay apart, as the helpless Europeans parished.

Shoshone Chiefs