Their ancestral territories, before the reservation period, included large parts of what is now Idaho, including the Snake River Plain.

The claim that the Buhl Woman was ancestral to the Shoshone-Bannock is one that archaeologists found difficult to accept, and the difficulty is not simply territorial.

At more than 12,000 years ago, the human populations of the Americas were ancestral to virtually all modern Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere, but not in a way that maps neatly onto the political boundaries and cultural identities of any specific contemporary tribe.

The challenge of cultural affiliation for very ancient remains is genuine.