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  Paiute - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Northern Paiute were more warlike than their southern relatives; they fought the miners and the settlers during the 1860s, and a considerable part of them joined the Bannock in the war of 1878.
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).
The Native American prophet Wovoka was a Paiute.
messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Paiute   (264 words)

  
 Paiute - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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).
Bibliography: See J. Steward, Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute (1933); O. Stewart, Northern Paiute Bands (1939); M. Wheat, Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes (1967).
Bishop Paiute Tribe Sues City of Los Angeles to Recover Land Lost in 1930's; Lawsuit Involves Long-Standing Conflict Over 1930's Los Angeles Land and Water Acquisitions in California's Owens Valley.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Paiute.asp   (412 words)

  
 paiute indian tribe native american social studies
The Flag of the Warm Springs, Wasco and Northern Paiute
___A biography of Woman Spirit, Sarah Winnemucca, and a couple of Paiute legends.
Paiute Native Americans of the Great Basin Desert
www.archaeolink.com /paiute_indian_tribe_native_ameri.htm   (665 words)

  
 The Indigenous Youth Foundation
Vandenburg Air Force base has a number of locations sacred to the Chumash which were used as Sacred/Power locations, and progress is already being made to deal with access to these locations.
The Coso Hot Springs within the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station was used extensively by a number of Indian tribes, primarily the Owens Lake Paiutes and the Shoshones.
Based on what is known globally of cultures that explain natural phenomena in terms of animism, this belief in a spirit world behind the veil of the rock surface would be a quite understandable response to sound reflection.
www.chumash.org /projects.htm   (15563 words)

  
 Paiute Tomahawk
2 stage vehicle consisting of 1 x Paiute + 1 x Tomahawk
1979 February 26 - 16:52 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Paiute Tomahawk.
1979 February 26 - 17:41 GMT - Launch Vehicle: Paiute Tomahawk.
www.astronautix.com /lvs/paiahawk.htm   (510 words)

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