The Reservation is not a dumping ground.  It is the permanent homeland of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes protected by treaty and federal law,” said Tribal Attorney Mark Echo Hawk.

But improved ocean conditions, court ... tumbled in Idaho, fishing seasons closed, and the ocean-going fish were almost forgotten by all but the state’s Indian tribes. But after the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe petitioned the federal government ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho Court of Appeals Panel has ruled that Philadelphia-based FMC Corp. must pay the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes $1.5 million annually for waste storage at its former phosphorus production plant in eastern Idaho.