Sand Mountain, also known as Singing Mountain, is located off Highway50, approximately twenty-five miles east of Fallon. Each year the popular site, which is under the management of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, is visited by thirty-five thousand outdoor enthusiasts who come to the 4,795 acre recreational area to sand board, hike, drive their dune buggies and dirt bikes, camp and have fun.
 
Of those who come to the six-hundred foot high dune, many want to hear the eerie booming sounds emitted when the …

An unprecedented two-year undercover operation led by agents from Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the FBI today began rounding up what prosecutors call a ring archeological grave robbers who looted pristine sites in the Southwest, desecrated ancient American Indian burials and stole priceless artifacts, selling them to dealers and collectors who were associated with the network.
 
In the nation’s largest investigation of archaeological and cultural artifact thefts, law officers from BLM, FBI, and U.S. Marshals, joined by local and state law enforcement partners, began arresting 23 individuals and …

The Shoshoni people saw the Wolf as a creator God and they respected him greatly. Long ago, Wolf, and many other animals, walked and talked like man. Coyote could talk, too, but the Shoshoni people kept far away from him because he was a Trickster, somebody who is always up to no good and out to double-cross you. Coyote resented Wolf because he was respected by the Shoshoni. Being a devious Trickster, Coyote decided it was time to teach Wolf a lesson. He would make the Shoshoni people dislike Wolf, …

Once there lived a giant named Tse’nahaha who killed people by looking at them. He always carried a big basket of thorns on his back. When he caught anyone, he threw him over his back into the basket. A group of Indians were playing the hand game in a certain house, and were having a good time. They had stationed a woman outside to watch for Tse- nahaha. After a while, she heard Tse’nahaha coming. He was talking to himself and singing. The woman tried to warn the people that …

Cultural, Language, and NAGPRA Coordinator Ray Stands
Contact Information:
Telephone: (775) 423-8065

At this time there are no language classes,
but we are working to bring them back.