English       Cornish miners to the Western side & Mormons to Eastern Idaho.  Basque (Boise Idaho Basques)       Sheepherders who settled in Southwestern Idaho.  Chinese       Early mining areas but few remained.  Coeur d'Alene Czechs Dutch       Mostly farmers  Gypsies Finnish       Silver Valley in the north and Long Valley in Valley County  French & French Canadian       Early miners who later spread throughout the state.  Germans & German Russians       Shoshone, Latah, Kootenai, Nez Perce, Bannock, Bingham, & Minidoka Counties.  Kootenai Mexican & other Hispanic       Later spread to agricultural areas throughout the state.  Mormons       Settled in Eastern Idaho, especially the Upper Snake River Valley.  Nez Perce Poles & Slovaks       Sawtooth Mountain Range.  Portuguese       Also Lincoln & Gooding Counties  Scandinavians       Panhandle settlements, Bear Lake Valley, Upper Snake River Valley  Shoshone-Bannock Shoshone-Paiute Swiss       Mostly farmers.  Welsh       Miners, Mormons, & railroad workers.

 Please help me locate web sites that belong here. Jason Mendenhall

Idaho Black History Museum

Fort Hall Replica

Nez Perce Tribe

Nez Perce Tribal Homepage

IDGenWeb Project Nez Perce Reservation Page

Nez Perce and Whitman Mission

Nez Perce and Henry Spalding

Nez Perce National Historic Trail Foundation

Nez Perce Trail

Sho-Ban Home page

IDGenWeb Project Fort Hall Reservation Page

Coeur d'Alene Indians

IDGenWeb Project Coeur d'Alene Reservation Page

IDGenWeb Project Duck Valley Reservation Page

Kootenai Indian Tribe, IDGenWeb Project, Boundary County Page

Significance of Asians in Idaho History

Chinese

The Gypsy Lore Society

Gypsies. Any Gypsy or Traveller group, but especially Romanichals.
For help or advice researching your gypsy ancestors contact volunteer, Matt.T.Salo@ccmail.census.gov

Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs

Official site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints

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