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GFC BOARD OF DIRECTORS VACANCY NOTICE
DEADLINE: December 6. 2024
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Our Purpose and vision for the Goshute Federal Corporation:
We ‘the people’, ‘the Newe’, have been in our homelands since time immemorial and have been
provided the opportunity to grow our people. Thus the Goshute Federal Corporation (GFC), a Section 17
tribally chartered and owned corporation, was established by our Tribal Council of the Confederated
Tribes of the Goshute Reservation to carry forward our mission to launch business endeavors and
advance tribal economics. The focus of our corporation is to bring to fruition viable economic
developments to further our people by providing the means to attain higher education opportunities;
expand employment opportunities; improve quality of life; maintain cultural preservation; grow our
people in mind, body and spirit; and raise community spirit by asserting control of our future and self-
determination through the successes of our business endeavors.
The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation is located 60 miles southeast of the nearest town of Wendover UT/NV in a secluded oasis at the foothills of the Deep Creek Mountains. Our reservation is approximately 113,000 acres in Juab and Tooele Counties in Utah and White Pine County in Nevada with the tribal headquarters located in Ibapah, Utah. Our member count is approximately 600 tribal members with only about one fourth of this number living on the reservation. The greater majority live off reservation primarily due to lack of jobs and housing on the reservation but we are all forever rooted to our homelands.
The word Goshute is derived from the native word Ku’tsip (Gu’tsip) which translates to ‘desert people’. We are known as hunter-gatherers and nomadically moved throughout the Great Basin and areas of southern Idaho, eastern Nevada, southern and eastern Utah for sustenance, season changes, and water sources. Our people survived on what mother earth provided through natural plants, wild vegetation and fruits, small and large game animals, water in the purest form and medicinal herbs and plants for wellness. Our culture, traditions and language are similar to Shoshones and Comanches. Our identity traits are in jeopardy and tribal leadership has been contending with ways to make improvement and practicing language immersion.