The Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation is an

Indian reservation An American Indian reservation is an area of land land tenure, held and governed by a List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States#Description, U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose gov ...

for the Ely Shoshone Tribe of Nevada,

Shoshone The Shoshone or Shoshoni ( or ), also known by the endonym Newe, are an Native Americans in the United States, Indigenous people of the United States with four large cultural/linguistic divisions: * Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming * Northern Shoshon ...

people, in and near the south side of the city of Ely in south-central

White Pine County, Nevada White Pine County is a largely rural, mountain County (United States), county along the central eastern boundary of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 9,080. Its county seat is Ely, ...

. In 2005 it had a population of around 500, a textile business, and its own court system. The reservation is quite small, with a land area of only and a 2000 census official resident population of 133 persons. Part of the city of Ely lies within its territory.Ely Reservation, Nevada
United States Census Bureau (retrieved 30 June 2010)

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Ely Shoshone Tribe
Western Shoshone American Indian reservations in Nevada Federally recognized tribes in the United States Geography of White Pine County, Nevada {{WhitePineCountyNV-geo-stub