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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. The Northern Paiute ranged over central and E California, W Nevada, and E Oregon. The Southern Paiute occupied NW Arizona, SE California, S Nevada, and S Utah. 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. The Southern Paiute are often called the Diggers because they subsisted on root digging. In general the Paiute of the Great Basin area subsisted by hunting, fishing, and digging for roots. They lived in small round huts (wickiups) that were covered with tule rushes. 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 messiah, Wovoka, was a Paiute. Today the Paiute live on reservations in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Oregon. The name is also spelled Piute. See J. H. Steward, Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute (1933); O. C. Stewart, Northern Paiute Bands (1939); M. M. Wheat, Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes (1967).
Bishop Paiute Tribe - http://www.paiute.com/
Official page includes information on history and governance, commercial development, and an archive of community events, casino and web-based business services, and links.
Las Vegas Paiute Tribe - http://itcn.org/tribes/lasvegas.html
Fact sheet from the Intertribal Council of Nevada outlining contact information, location, governance, and civic services.
Lovelock Paiute Tribe - http://itcn.org/tribes/lovelock.html
Fact sheet from the Intertribal Council of Nevada outlining contact information, location, governance, and civic services.
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe - http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~mandell/plpt.html
Official page includes a description of the reservation, tribal council roster, tribal statistics, economy, and pictures of the area.
Summit Lake Paiute Tribe - http://itcn.org/tribes/summit.html
Fact sheet from the Intertribal Council of Nevada outlining contact information, location, governance, and civic services.
Walker River Paiute Tribe - http://itcn.org/tribes/wrpt.html
Fact sheet from the Intertribal Council of Nevada outlining contact information, location, governance, and civic services.
Yerington Paiute Tribe - http://itcn.org/tribes/ypt.html
Fact sheet from the Intertribal Council of Nevada outlining contact information, location, governance, and civic services.
Paiute Language - http://itcn.org/language/paiute.html
Sound files for a few words and phrases in .au format from the Intertribal Council of Nevada. |
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