Bonnacks Bannacks, or Paunaqnes, a tribe of Indians of the Shoshonee family scattered over several of the territories and states of the Union. They were first found in the almost desert lands between the Saptin river and Salt lake, and between the Blue and Rocky mountains. At an early period they obtained horses and resorted to the bison plains and more fertile spots, and thus became a more closely connected tribe than Indians on foot. They are proud, brave, fine-looking men, though their women are represented as ugly. Those with the eastern Sho-shonees, long under a friendly chief, Tahjee, have always been friendly to the whites. With the others there were for a time hostilities in 1866. They frequent the Yellowstone country to hunt, and range through northern Utah, Wyoming, southern Montana, Nevada, and Idaho. The two chief bands number apparently about 500 each, though in the ordinary returns some appear to be enumerated over again in different agencies. Their language is a dialect of the Shoshonee, but differs considerably from that of the Shoshonees proper.

They have recently been placed on reservations where there is but little fish or game, and where they have been exposed to attacks from the Dakotas.