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Carrie Dann, Defender of Her Ancestral Land, Dies
She struggled to win recognition of tribal rights to a territory stretching across four states. Some tribe members accepted money to end the dispute; she refused.
Carrie Dann in 2002 on the family ranch she owned with her sister, Mary Dann, near Crescent Valley, Nev.Credit.Laura Rauch/Associated Press
By The Associated Press
Jan. 13, 2021
Carrie Dann, who spent decades fighting the United States government to reclaim the ancestral land of the Western Shoshone Nation, died on Jan. 1 at her home in Crescent Valley, Nev.
Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, a longtime friend and fellow activist, confirmed the death and estimated that Ms. Dann was between 86 and 88. Ms. Dann did not have a birth certificate, she said.
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Native American land activist Carrie Dann dies in Nevada
By Staff | Jan 9, 2021
RENO, Nev. (AP) – Carrie Dann, a Native American land rights activist, Nevada rancher and longtime leader of the Western Shoshone Nation, has died.
Dann and her younger sister Mary Dann, who died in 2005, fought with the federal government for decades over ownership of their ancestral lands in central Nevada.
Born in Nevada’s Crescent Valley in 1932, Dann co-founded the Western Shoshone Defense Project in 1991.
She died Saturday at home of natural causes with family members near, said Julie Cavanaugh-Bill, a friend and lawyer in Elko who worked with Dann on numerous defense project cases. She was believed to be between 86 and 88, but didn’t have a birth certificate, Cavanaugh-Bill said.