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A Goshutes come the Native American tribe that once numbered 20,000. Just Five hundred remain.

Just about 125 belong to the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians[http://www.skullvalleygoshutes.org/] located in Utah. Just about Thirty hold up an 18,000 acre (73 kilometre^Deuce) reservation inside Utah. A Dugway Proving Grounds lies just south of Skull Valley. To the east occurs as nerve gas storage facility and northwards is the Magnesium Corporation plant which has experienced severe environmental problems. the reservation was a projected location for an 820 acre (Ternion klick²) dry cask storage facility for the storage of 40,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel.

Skull Valley Goshutes
Website focus is the possibility of temporarily storing 40,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from Private Fuel Storage (PFS) on the tribe's reservation near Tooele, Utah. Includes history of the tribe, sovereignty issues and tribal newspaper.

Skull Valley Reservation
Profile of the reservation and tribe, with map. From Tiller's Guide to Indian Country, 1996.

Utah History To Go: The Goshute Indians of Utah
Long article about the tribe, its culture, and its history after first contact with European Americans.