The Timbisha are a Native American tribe federally recognized as the Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone Band of California. They are known as the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe and are located in south central California, near the Nevada border. As of the 2010 Census the population of the Village was 124. The older members still speak the ancestral language, also called Timbisha.
Timbisha Shoshone History
Death Valley Indian Community, looking west toward the village from a hill one mile away across highway 190
Coso petroglyphs
Coso sheep
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer. Death Valley is home to the Timbisha tribe of Native Americans, formerly known as the Panamint Shoshone, who have inhabited the valley for at least the past millennium.
Death Valley as seen from Space Shuttle Columbia in October 1995
Sand dunes at Mesquite Flats
View from Badwater Basin
A Landsat 5 satellite photo of Lake Badwater on February 9, 2005