The federal government created the Duck Valley Reservation by an executive order in 1878. More than a decade earlier, Shoshone and Bannock people who would eventually move (under duress) to the Duck Valley reserve signed a peace treaty with the federal government, the Treaty of Ruby Valley. While these people of the interior desert lands of northern Nevada and southern Idaho relied upon plant foods, they also traveled to the Snake River to fish for salmon. They also caught salmon at the Bruneau and Owyhee rivers.
