The watershed of the river was part of region inhabited by the Shoshone and Bannock Native Americans. The name of the river is from the older spelling of "Hawaii".
It was named for three Native Hawaiian trappers, in the employ of the North West Company, who were sent to explore the uncharted river.
They failed to return to the rendezvous near the Boise River and were never seen again. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owyhee_River
"About one-third of the men with Donald MacKenzie's Snake Country Expeditions of 1819–1820 were Hawaiians, commonly called "Kanakas" or "Sandwich Islanders" in those days, with
"Owyhee" being a standard period spelling
of the proper Hawaiian language name for the islands, hawai'i, which then was otherwise unused in English.
The three Kanakas were detached to trap on the river in 1819 and were probably killed by Native Americans that year. "
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"In 1866 the son of Sacagawea, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, died near Jordan Valley after catching a chill
upon crossing the Owyhee en route from California to new gold strikes in Montana
(one of the gold strikes, near Bannack, Montana, was just a few miles from where he had traveled as a toddler with his mother in the company of William Clark). "
(Led astray from Culture, History, Earth)
"The Montana Mountains are a mountain range in Humboldt County, Nevada.
The mining company Lithium Americas Corporation is building a mine at Thacker Pass"
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"people from different perspectives and ideological persuasions can still come together to accomplish great feats,” Kotek wrote to Biden."
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"The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 designated 323,274 acres (130,824 ha) on and around the Owyhee River in Idaho as wilderness.
The bill was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009.
The new wilderness areas are:
North Fork Owyhee Wilderness - 43,413 acres (17,569 ha)
Owyhee River Wilderness - 267,328 acres (108,184 ha)
Pole Creek Wilderness - 12,533 acres (5,072 ha)
After negotiations involving Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, the Owyhee Act introduced in November 2019. It would preserve 1 million acres (400 thousand hectares) of Owyhee canyonlands as wilderness....while calling for improvements to loop roads to bring in visitors. "
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"Kotek on Aug. 5 wrote to President Joe Biden, asking that he designate a large share of the 2.5 million-acre canyonlands and a stretch of the Owyhee River, often called
*“Oregon’s Grand Canyon,”
a national monument under the Antiquities Act of 1906 should Congress not pass legislation this year to protect it. "
*Maybe Governor Rene Gonzalez will hire staff to edit Wikipedia using dark money from god knows where.
(Malheur-North Patriot People for Oligarchs Inc Nike )
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"Permanent safeguards will protect the Owyhee Canyonlands against the growing threats of
Development,
Extraction
and other
Detrimental activities"
DED activities.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/08/22/kotek-owyhee-canyonlands-protection/
'The canyonlands have significant health, economic and cultural value to the Northern Paiute, Bannock and Shoshone tribes. They are a source of tourism dollars in Malheur County and are home to threatened sage grouse, as well as bighorn sheep, elk and deer.
The animals and their habitats face growing risks from wildfire due to invasive grasses and juniper.
Fish species in the Owyhee River face challenges from poorly preserved riparian areas and cattle grazing."
"Expeditions for the Hudson's Bay Company refer to the river primarily as the "Sandwich Island River", but also as "S. I. River", "River Owyhee", and "Owyhee River"."
"The bill, signed by southeast Oregon ranchers, conservationists, tribal leaders and small business owners in the area, also proposes to transfer 30,000 acres of federal and private land into a trust overseen by the Burns Paiute Tribe."
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"The Thacker Pass lithium mine is a lithium clay mining development project in Humboldt County, Nevada, which is
the largest known lithium deposit in the US and one of the largest in the world.
There has been significant exploration of Thacker Pass since 2007. "
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