Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony

Bishop Paiute Tribe

Bishop Paiute women's Labor Day parade float, 1940
Total population
1,114
Regions with significant populations
United States ( California)
Languages
Mono, Timbisha, English
Related ethnic groups
other Northern Paiute and Timbisha peoples

The Bishop Paiute Tribe, formerly known as the Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony is a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha Indians of the Owens Valley, in Inyo County of eastern California. As of the 2010 Census the population was 1,588.

The Bishop Paiute Tribe has a federal reservation, the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony (37°21′58″N 118°25′22″W / 37.36611°N 118.42278°W / 37.36611; -118.42278), in the upper Owens Valley, above the city of Bishop, California. The reservation is on the lower slopes and alluvial fan of the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains and is 877 acres (3.55 km²) in size. Approximately 1,441 tribal members live on the reservation. The reservation was established in 1912. In 1990, 934 people were enrolled in the federally recognized tribe.

The tribe is governed by a democratically elected tribal council. The current administration is as follows:

The Bishop Community traditionally spoke both the Timbisha language and Mono language, both of which are part of the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Timbisha is in the Central Numic and Mono is in the Western Numic divisions.