Haivo-deka

The Haivo-deka, recorded as the Haivodika or Haiwodekanee and nicknamed the Dove Eaters, were an Eastern Shoshone band of the Green River country in western Wyoming and south-eastern Idaho. Their Kuccuntikka kin, the Buffalo Eaters, gave them the nickname for hanging back during buffalo hunts.

Numic-speaking foragers had entered the Great Basin around the fourteenth century, and by 1500 Shoshone groups were moving out onto the Great Plains, where horse herds made the Kuccuntikka the strongest of the Shoshone bands.

About 1825 the Dove Eaters broke away to camp nearer the white trading posts, wintering along Henrys Fork and the streams of the Bridger Basin, and lived as middlemen who carried Plains and Great Basin skins to the traders and passed on guns, metal tools and cloth to the Ute, Flathead and Nez Perce.