Tendoy Lemhi County, Idaho
Mapped Location
Tendoy: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Tendoy
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Tendoy
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Tendoy | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Tendoy
References to Tendoy that document the origin of its place name
LEMHIS.—At the time Lewis and Clark visited the Lemhi country in 1805 there were about five hundred Shoshonis then occupying the land under Chief Cameahwait (q.v.). In 1855 the Mormons found the country still inhabited by Shoshonis under Chief Snagg (q.v.) together with some roving Bannacks (q.v.), but the gold miners of 1866 found a mixed tribe which was composed of Shoshonis, Tukuarikas and Bannacks who had gathered into one congregation and had selected Tendoy (q.v.) their chief, and as they did not constitute a separate tribe, they became known as Tendoy's band. After becoming settled on the Lemhi Indian reservation (q. v.) in Lemhi Valley in 1875, where they intermarried,they soon coalesced into a tribe now called the "Lemhis," and so extensively did they intermarry that in 1900, excepting some old people, there were no full-blood Shoshonis, Tukuarikas or Bannacks among them, so they were enumerated, in the census, as a single tribe. In 1905 they gave up the Lemhi Reserve and were, later, removed to Fort Hall Reservation (q.v.), numbering at the time 474 souls.—REES, History of Lemhi County.
Lemhi County
- Baker
- Blackbird
- Carmen
- Cobalt
- Elk Bend
- Forney
- Gibbonsville
- Gilmore
- Hahn
- Junction
- City of Leadore
- Leadville
- Leesburg
- Lemhi
- May
- Nicholia
- North Fork
- Patterson
- City of Salmon
- Shoup
- Tendoy
- Ulysses (historical)
- Williams Lake Resort
- Yellowjacket
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2016-12-19