Release date:     January 28, 2026
Contact:         PWR Public Affairs, [email protected]

Death Valley National Park and Timbisha Shoshone
Tribe Mark 25th Anniversary of Homeland Act

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. – Death Valley National Park, in partnership with the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act on Jan. 30 with a public event recognizing a landmark moment in tribal sovereignty and park co-management.

The event will feature a public program honoring the enduring relationship between the Tribe and the lands now encompassed by the park.

Enacted in 2000, the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act formally recognized the Tribe’s ancestral ties to Death Valley, transferred lands to the tribe, and established a co-management framework for much of the park setting a national precedent for collaboration between tribes and the National Park Service.

The public is invited to the celebration at 10 a.m. local time at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center or to watch via live stream at https://ow.ly/9gZU50XT2Yh. The program will include a tribal blessing, remarks from Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Council members and the National Park Service leaders.

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Death Valley National Park is the homeland of the Timbisha Shoshone and preserves natural resources, cultural resources, exceptional wilderness, scenery, and learning experiences within the nation’s largest conserved desert landscape and some of the most extreme climate and topographic conditions on the planet. Learn more at www.nps.gov/deva.