Egan led his tribe and some Bannock people in fighting the white settlers for two years.

The case then went to the Supreme Court which concluded that Bannock people were void of the poaching laws on reservation land.

By the time of European encounter, the historic Shoshone and Bannock peoples had been occupying the area for centuries.

The Bannock peoples originated from the Northern Paiute tribe of northern Idaho.

Prior to the late 19th century, Bannock people fished for salmon on the Snake River in Idaho and in the fall, they hunted buffalo herds.

When John Colter became the first white man to visit the area in 1807, the only inhabitants were Tukadikas, a Shoshone Bannock people who hunted bighorn sheep.

The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation are composed of Goshute, Paiute and Bannock peoples.

The section of the city along the Portneuf River was inhabited by the Shoshoni and Bannock peoples for several centuries before the arrival of Europeans in the early 19th century.

American Indian tribes predominant in the area in historic times included the Nez Perce and the Coeur d'Alene in the north; and the Northern and Western Shoshone and Bannock peoples in the south.

In 1878, the Bannock people and northern Shoshone tribes participated in the Bannock War, a war against white settlers in the region over the destruction of camas root - a major source of food for the natives - by white settlers' hogs.