Today the tribal reservation consists of a small tract containing the Washakie cemetery, and the tribe is seeking to acquire more of the surrounding land.

The Washakie site is located in the southern part of the narrow Malad Valley, near the Idaho border and is approximately 35 miles (56 km) north of Brigham City.

After a few years of attempting to continue their traditional nomadic lifeways, Sagwitch's people converted to Mormonism in 1873 and expressed a desire to learn sedentary agriculture.

[5] Both farms made progress, but water was often insufficient for irrigation, and the missionaries assigned to help Hill train the new farmers were frequently absent.

In 1880, leaders of the LDS Church purchased a 1,700-acre (690 ha) farm south of Portage[6] from the Brigham City Cooperative, along with the unfinished Samaria Canal.