 Sawtooth Range, the traditional home of the Tukudeka in central Idaho | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Fewer than 5,822[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 United States ( Idaho) | |
| Languages | |
| Shoshone, English[2] | |
| Religion | |
| Native American Church, Sun Dance, traditional tribal religion, Christianity, Ghost Dance | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Shoshone tribes, Bannock, Northern Paiute |
The Tukudeka or Mountain Sheepeaters are a band of Shoshone within the Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Shoshone.[3] Before the reservation era, they traditionally lived in the central Sawtooth Range of Idaho and the mountains of what is now northwest Wyoming.[4] Bands were very fluid and nomadic, and they often interacted with and intermarried other bands of Shoshone. Today the Tukudeka are enrolled in the federally recognized Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho and the Eastern Shoshone of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
- ^ "Shoshone-Bannock Tribes." Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 24 Oct 2013.
- ^ "Shoshoni." Archived 2017-06-20 at the Wayback Machine Ethnologue. Retrieved 24 Oct 2013.
- ^ Shimkin 335
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