Homeland of the Burns Paiute

The board's last line folds three dates into one. The Burns Paiute did not buy their land in 1972. In 1928 they acquired ten acres from the Egan Land Company half a mile west of Burns, ground that had been the city dump, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs built twenty houses on it, the place called Old Camp. In 1935 a federal loan bought 771 acres a mile north, New Camp. What came in 1972 was an act of Congress, signed October 13, holding both in trust as a reservation. The tribe keeps that date as Reservation Day.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Malheur National Wildlife Refuge — 29 mi
  A lake-and-marsh refuge set aside for its birds in 1908 that had to buy a river's water to keep them, and now fights the carp that have eaten away its marshes.

More markers nearby

• American Indian Seasonal Round — 24 mi