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  Paiute - Ghost Dancers Wovoka
Usage of the terms Paiute, Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute is most correct when referring to groups of people with similar language and culture, and should not be taken to imply a political connection or even an especially close genetic relationship.
The language of the Northern Paiute is a Shoshonean dialect.
In fact the distinction between the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone is not sharp.
www.crystalinks.com /paiute.html   (4003 words)

  
 Paiute Indian Tribe History (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The northern Paiute were more warlike than those of the south, and a considerable number of them took part with the Bannock in the war of 1878.
Owing to the fact that the great majority of the Paiute (including the Paviotso) are not on reservations, many of them being attached to the ranches of white men, it is impossible to determine their population, but they may be safely estimated at from 6,500 to 7,000.
As a people the Paiute are peaceable, moral, and industrious, and are highly commended for their good qualities by those who have had the best opportunities for judging.
www.accessgenealogy.com.cob-web.org:8888 /native/tribes/paiute/paiutehistory.htm   (597 words)

  
 Paiute Indian Tribe - American Indian Nations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Paiute (sometimes written as Piute) refers to two related groups -- Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute --of Native Americans speaking languages belonging to the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family of Native American languages.
The use of the name "Paiute" for these peoples is misleading - The Northern Paiute are more closely related to the Shoshone than to the Southern Paiute, and the Southern Paiute are more closely related to the Ute than to the Northern Paiute.
The Northern Paiute's pre-contact lifestyle was well adapted to the harsh desert environment in which they lived.
www.comanchelodge.com /nations/paiute-tribe.html   (835 words)

  
 Paiute - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
PAIUTE [Paiute], two distinct groups of Native North Americans speaking languages belonging to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
It was among the Paiute that the Ghost Dance religion, which was to be of much significance on the frontier in the 1890s, first appeared (c.1870).
Yerington Paiute have a keeper of the flame
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-paiute.html   (420 words)

  
 John Day Fossil Beds NM: Historic Resources Study (Chapter 1)
The Northern Paiute, speakers of a Uto-Aztecan language, were also inhabitants of the upper reaches of the John Day River in the early nineteenth century.
Northern Paiutes occupied a vast section of northwestern Nevada and southeastern Oregon.
The northern extent of their customary territory included the Crooked River in the Deschutes watershed, streams flowing into Harney and Malheur lakes in the Harney Basin, the Malheur and Owyhee drainages, and a portion of the upper John Day River.
www.nps.gov /joda/hrs/hrs1b.htm   (868 words)

  
 Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
Nellie Shaw Harnar, a Northern Paiute, was named Nevada's Outstanding Woman of theYear in 1975 for her support in Nevada to get monuments erected to the memory of Sarah Winnemucca.
Wuzzie George, a Northern Paiute, preserved Paiute crafts and customs, taught to her by her grandmother, by teaching and demonstrating her skills and knowledge through a significant part of her life.
The Southern Paiute's language is similar to that of the Pima and Papago cultures.
www.lvccld.org /library/info_guides/nahm/nvtribes.html   (1237 words)

  
 Early Native Americans
The Py-utes (Paiutes) - northern and southern, the Sho-sho-ne, and the Washoe.
The northern Paiute name Thocmetony (Shell-Flower) was bestowed on this valiant daughter of Chief Winnemucca and whose mother was the daughter of Captain Truckee.
The primary tribes being the northern Paiute of western Nevada and southeastern Oregon; the Shoshone of central and eastern Nevada and Utah; the southern Paiute of southern Nevada and neighboring Utah; and the Ute of eastern Utah and western Colorado.
www.nevada-history.org /indians.html   (5221 words)

  
 Harney County Chamber of Commerce - Burns, Oregon - Paiute Tribe
This, however, contradicts the Paiute stories and legends that are handed down from generation to generation which tell of the Paiute people living in the Great Basin for thousands and thousands of years.
But, as the Paiutes noticed, the settlers brought with them resources of their own--those very livestock and horses that were eating and trampling the Wadatika's food supplies.
This was a blow to the Indians, as was the replacement of Agent Samuel Parrish that summer due to the urging of the settlers.
www.harneycounty.com /LilBlitzenFall/Paiute.htm   (3994 words)

  
 GeoNative - Paiute - Ute
Paiute herria zen EEBBetako mendebaldeko mendialde-lautadetako bizilagunak: eskualde horietako batzuetan kokatu ziren hara joandako euskal artzain gehienak (gure izen zerrendan Durango paiuteraz nola den ikasiko duzu!).
The Paiute were the main inhabitants of the Great Basin region of the western USA, from Arizona to Oregon, covering most of Nevada and Utah.
The main Paiute groups are the Northern Paiute, who live in Northern Nevada and adjacent areas of Oregon, California, and Idaho (2,000 speakers out of 4,000 population), and the Southern Paiute, also called, more simply, Ute.
www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/paiute.html   (208 words)

  
 Southeastern Oregon - Paiute
The lifestyle of the Paiutes was considerably different from that of the Wasco and Warm Springs bands.
The Paiute language was foreign to the Wasco and Warm Springs bands, and commerce among them was infrequent.
Northern Paiute territory did include the sisters-Bend area although I cannot name the band right off hand that habitually inhabited that northern area, but the Warm Springs Reservation was not too far away from home for some folks.
www.chenowith.k12.or.us /tech/subject/social/natam_or/southeast.html   (573 words)

  
 Paiute Native Americans of the Great Basin Desert - DesertUSA
Paiute (Numa) people occupy the vast area of the Great Basin Desert regions of Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona and Utah.
The three cultural divisions of Northern Paiute, Owens Valley Paiute and Southern Paiute were further subdivided into smaller geographic groups.
The Paiute adapted to the high desert by hunting and gathering such resources as pine nuts, roots, seeds, birds and fish.
www.desertusa.com /ind1/du_peo_paiute.html   (137 words)

  
 Crescent Lake Dam Project - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Life changed rather dramatically for portions of the Northern Paiute, principally those living in eastern Oregon, during the late eighteenth century when the horse, originally brought to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors and readily taken up by the Plains tribes, made its way to the northern reaches of the Great Basin.
The first group of Northern Paiute to adopt the horse radically altered their culture in response; after traveling with their Northern Shoshone neighbors for many years this portion of the tribe became known as the Bannocks.
Not all the Northern Paiute adopted the horse as readily as the Bannocks.
www.usbr.gov /dataweb/html/crescent_lake.html   (3582 words)

  
 CAMPFIRES - Medicine Voices
Treaty of Friendship between settlers of Carson Valley and the Northern Paiute tribe of Indians, represented by Chief Winnemucca.
The terms of the treaty provided that Paiute tribal justice would punish Paiute Indians accused of killing or robbing whites, where the criminals could be identified, and likewise whites who killed or stole from Paiutes would be punished by the settler's government.
Paiute prophet Wovoka ('Jack Wilson') revived 1870 Ghost Dance movement at Walker Lake Paiute Reservation; Indian war scares in Lander and Lyon counties; Wovoka's teachings influenced the Plains Indians and precipitated a battle between the U. Army and the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Reservation in South Dakota on December 29, 1890.
www.angelfire.com /nv2/wells/campfires.html   (3696 words)

  
 Utah History for Kids - American Indians
The Paiute are divided into two groups: the Northern Paiute and the Southern Paiute.
A Southern Paiute house might be made of brush and poles stacked in a cone-shape, called wickiups.
Southern Utah, northern Arizona, and northern New Mexico is the land of the Navajo; the largest American Indian tribe in the United States.
historyforkids.utah.gov /history_and_facts/americanindians.html   (494 words)

  
 Resources on the Paiute
Paiute (sometimes written as Piute) refers to two related groups — Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute — of Native Americans speaking languages belonging to the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family of Native American languages.
The use of the name "Paiute" for these peoples is misleading — The Northern Paiute are more closely related to the Shoshone than to the Southern Paiute, and the Southern Paiute are more closely related to the Ute than to the Northern Paiute.
The Southern Paiute traditionally lived in the Colorado River basin and Mojave Desert in northern Arizona, southeast California, southern Nevada, and southern Utah.
www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/north_american/Paiute.html   (1662 words)

  
 Paiute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Paiute people that made reservations in California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and Arizona are called the Northern Paiute.
These people and other Paiutes were forced to move to the Yakima reservation at Fort Vancouver, after the Bannock had waged war on the U.S. army in 1874.
The language of the Northern Paiutes is a Shoshonean dialect.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/paiute.html   (321 words)

  
 Swtext Nevada Tribes 1d
With the Bannock, the Northern Paiute constituted one dialectic group of the Shoshonean Branch of the Uto-Aztecan stock.
Aside from the detached Bannock, the Northern Paiute were divided by the Sierra Nevada Mountains into a widely spread eastern division and a small division confined to California, the Eastern and Western Mono of Kroeber.
Even allowing for the Northern Paiute, this figure must be too high or the enumerators of 1910 missed a great many Indians, for the census of that date, reports only 780 Paiute altogether.
www.hiddenhistory.com /PAGE3/SWSTS/nevada1.HTM   (2608 words)

  
 Paiute Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Northern Paiute fished, gathered roots and berries, and hunted in the Columbia-Snake River drainage.
During the white settlement of Oregon, Northern Paiute resisted removal.
Finally, in 1933, the government purchased thirty-three acres and established the Burns Colony of the Northern Paiute.
www.ccrh.org /comm/river/profile/paiute.htm   (290 words)

  
 northern plains indian tribes social studies
It was after the introduction in 1730 of the animal named "elk-horse" for its great size that the Blackfoot tribes became renowned for their expert horsemanship and continued their dominance of neighboring Native American groups as they pushed westward toward the Rocky Mountains.
The Southern Cheyenne in Oklahoma and the Northern Cheyenne in Montana.
Their research is primarily with the Northern band but they do have information about various families in the Southern band.
www.archaeolink.com /northern_plains_indian_tribes_na.htm   (4038 words)

  
 American Indians
A Southern Paiute house might be made of brush and poles stacked in a conical shape.
Basketry was made by the Southern Paiute as was pottery.
Southern Utah, northern Arizona, and northern New Mexico is the land of the Navajo; the largest Native American Tribe in the United States.
historytogo.utah.gov /facts/brief_history/americanindians.html   (597 words)

  
 Paiute Profile (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Paiute remained in Warner and Harney valleys and continued their traditional subsistence patterns until Congress established the Malheur Reservation in 1872.
Originally intended for all the bands in southeastern Oregon, the federal government abandoned the reservation and opened it for white settlement in 1878 after most Indians refused to move there.
Many Northern Paiutes fought in the Bannock War of 1878.
www.ccrh.org.cob-web.org:8888 /comm/river/profile/paiute.htm   (290 words)

  
 Willard Park Collection 96-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He began an extensive ethnohistoric bibliography of the Northern Paiute and planned to edit his remaining Northern Paiute materials for publication.
Park's Northern Paiute ethnographic notes were compiled and edited by Catherine S. Fowler in 1989 as Willard Z. Park's Ethnographic Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada, 1933-1940, Volume 1 (Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Anthropological Papers, no.
Park's research notes are important for research among the Northern Paiute of Nevada, since his informants were a link with the then rapidly disappearing traditional Paiute culture and lifeways.
www.library.unr.edu /specoll/mss/96-05.html   (1064 words)

  
 Paiute
The northern tribes lived in Oregon, Nevada and California, whereas the southern group inhabited Utah and Arizona.
The Northern Paiute were also known as Diggers.
The Paiute subsisted primarily on seeds and nuts and on small game such as rabbits.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWpaiute.htm   (569 words)

  
 John Day Fossil Beds NM: Native Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Northern Paiute were the main Shoshonean speaking culture in Oregon.
One system used more recently are those names supposedly given groups by the Northern Paiute based on what resource they exploited at a certain time of the year.
Berreman (1937:61) states that the group in question, the Lohim, were Northern Paiute, while Steward (1938:407) says they were a band of Lemhi, from the Bannock, who arrived from Idaho after 1856.
www.nps.gov /joda/lee/lee1-2.htm   (529 words)

  
 Spirit Cave & Kennewick
In early 1997, the Fallon Paiute-Shosone claimed the remains and associated funerary objects under NAGPRA and on behalf of all Northern Paiute tribal governments.
There is no geographic, linguistic, or historic evidence indicating how long the Northern Paiute have occupied the Spirit Cave area prior to European contact in the early 1800s and none indicating who, if anyone, lived there at any earlier time.
"Expert testimony from contemporary tribal elders asserts that the Northern Paiute have been in the Spirit Cave area from 'time immemorial' and that this means that there is a relationship of shared group identity between the Northern Paiute and the people who interred the remains from Spirit Cave.
www.archaeology.org /online/news/kennewick5.html   (763 words)

  
 Paiute - Ethnos - Books about the Paiute People
The Native American "prophet", Wovoka, was a Northern Paiute.
Sarah Winnemucca: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Paiute Nation
Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860 (Vintage West)
www.almudo.com /ethnos/Paiute.htm   (406 words)

  
 Paiute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are federally recognized tribes with significant Northern Paiute populations:
Southern Paiutes – Moapa - Las Vegas Paiutes wearing traditional Paiute basket hats.
First European contact with the Southern Paiutes occurred in 1776 when Fathers Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez chanced upon them during their failed attempt to find an overland route to the missions of California.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Paiute   (1211 words)

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