Paiute Paiute Paiute Native Americans of the Great Basin Desert - DesertUSA
THE PAIUTE PEOPLE of the Great Basin Desert. ... During autumn, the Paiute people

paiute indian tribe native american social studies
...http://www.xphomestation.com/paiutewar.html Paiute Native Americans of the Great

Mono Basin Native Americans
...language. This site gave us some information on the Paiute language and

Mono Basin Native Americans
I think they are improving and doing a good job. 3. Do you have a Native American

Yahoo! Directory United States > Native American > Fallon Paiute ...
Yahoo! reviewed these sites and found them related to United States >

Flags of the Native American Peoples of the US
Fall, 2003 - a new updated version of the original book called Native American Flags

Online Native American Indian Genealogy Records & Databases
Walker River Valley, Nevada Paiute Indian Records, 1914-20 (requires ... payment). South

Native Americans - Paiute
The Native American messiah, Wovoka, was a Paiute. Today the Paiute live

Native American Federations
Indian Reservation of Oregon - http://www.warmsprings.com/index.htm It is the land

NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE - PAGE 2
Tribe of Paiute indians Yerington Paiute Tribe of Nevada Lovelock Paiute Tribe of

OREGON’S NATIVE AMERICANS
Except for the Paiute, they were not permanent residents of Oregon. ... Native Americans

Paiute / Native Americans / Women / Baskets / Grinding / Huts ...
Paiute / Native Americans / Women / Baskets / Grinding / Huts / Shelters / Boys /

Native Spirits: Life
...of Nevada host reservations and colonies for three tribes: Washo, Paiute, Shoshone

NATIVE AMERICANS
Native American Indians of Utah Online Utah features articles on the Ute,

GeoNative - Amerika - Native American
Native American Languages. ... Navajo (New Mexico, Arizona) Omaha-Ponca (Great Plains)

Free Genealogy
Native American Nations. Native Americans, Indian Tribes, Indian History.

Native American Tribes of the Great Basin and California
Native American Tribes of the Great Basin and California. ... Fort McDermitt Paiute and

People of the Colorado Plateau-The Southern Paiute
Kelly, IT 1934. Southern Paiute bands. ... Native Americans and the environment: A survey

Paiute on Encyclopedia.com
...to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic

index.htmlArchaeologist-Burns Paiute-Northern Paiute-Native ...
Diane L. Teeman-UO Departments of Anthropology and Philosophy. E-mail:

Native American Authors: Paiute Tribe
...the Internet Public Library. Native American Authors: Browsing

Native American Indian Tribes
Choctaw. Choctaw. Choctaw Home Page. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Native American

WWWVL: American Indian - Native American Genealogy Resources on ...
Paiute Indian Records, 1907-1912 Walker Riv.Val., NV Paiute Indian Records ... 1904-08

NativeWeb Resources: Native American Tribal Pages
Moapa Paiute Band of the Moapa Indian Reservation, Paiute, 199. ... These pages are devoted

NativeWeb Resources: US Tribal Pages (BIA Recognized)
...consists of 481 members from three Great Basin Tribes - the Paiute, the Shoshone

Google Directory - Society > Ethnicity > The Americas > Indigenous ...
Northern Paiute - http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/

Shivwits Indian Reservation
742 (01/24/94) Native Americans (In Utah) The story of Major John Wesley Powell

Great Basin Art Gallery: Native American Prints (TOC)
Historical Native American Photographs Available from Great Basin Art Gallery. ... MARCH

Federally Recognized Native American Tribes -- Courtesy of The ...
Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona Yerington Paiute Tribe of ... Check

NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS
Native American Lands. ... The San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe is a small, newly recognized

NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS
Native American Lands. ... Situated on the Arizona/Utah border near Fredonia, the

EasyFunSchool - Native Americans: Tribes of the USA - Article ...
Gosute Paiute Panaca Shoshone Washo Winnemucca. For more information, you might

Nevada Indian Tribes
...name adopted in the Handbook of American Indians (Hodge ... Paviotso, a native term applied

John Day Fossil Beds NM: Native Americans
AMERICAN INDIANS ... Indians of Eastern Oregon by Kathyrn Lee. SHOSHONEAN (UTO-AZTECAN).

Paiute Indian Genealogy & History: Resources For Researching Your ...
Native American General Resource Links. Las Vegas Paiute Tribe; Walker River

Native American Indian Myth and Folklore - Paiute - Paiute ...
Learn about Paiute Native American Indian Myth and Folklore, Native American Culture,

INFO GUIDE - NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
...(775) 265-5845 http://itcn.org/tribes/washoe/dville.html. Duck Valley Reservation

Native American Authors: Sarah Winnemucca
...the Internet Public Library. Native American Authors Project. Sarah Winnemucca

AllRefer Encyclopedia - Paiute (North American Indigenous Peoples) ...
...to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic

Bainbridge Bunting Memorial Slide Library - Native American Arts ...
Native American Tribal Arts & Architecture GREAT BASIN ARTS First & Second Line

Bainbridge Bunting Memorial Slide Library - Native American Arts ...
Native American Tribal Arts & Architecture GREAT BASIN ARCHITECTURE. First ... otherwise.

| Native American Indian Tribes - Over 700 articles
How the Shoshone and Paiutes became allies (Shoshone - Paiute Legend), (1324 reads,

- Paiute Celebrations | Native American Indian Tribes - Over 700 ...
...and said, "Why are you celebrating, shouting 41 days, 41 days?" A Paiute then held

Arizona Indian Tribes
Economic Development Research Program works extensively with Native American tribes

Homework Center - Native American Sites
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs http://www.warmsprings.com/ Warm Springs

Yosemite Basketmakers -- Native American Art
Yosemite Miwok - Paiute Native American basketmakers: Lucy Parker Telles;

Utah History To Go - Native Americans
...their own slave trade with the Spanish against the Southern Paiute and Navajo ... between

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. 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 origin of the word Paiute is unclear — some anthropologists have interpreted it as "Water Ute" or "True Ute". The Northern Paiute call themselves Numa (sometimes written as Numu). The Southern Paiute call themselves Nuwuvi. Both terms mean "the people". Early Spanish explorers called the Southern Paiute "Payuchi" (they did not make contact with the Northern Paiute). Early Euro-American settlers often called both groups of Paiute "Diggers" (presumably due to their practice of digging for roots), although that term is now considered derogatory. The Northern Paiute are sometimes referred to as "Paviotso".

The Bannock, Mono, Panamint and Kawaiisu people who also speak Numic languages and live in adjacent areas are also sometimes referred to as Paiute.

The Northern Paiute speak the Northern Paiute language, while the Southern Paiute speak the Ute-Southern Paiute language. These languages are not as closely related to each other as they are to other Numic languages.

Northern Paiute

The Northern Paiute traditionally lived in the Great Basin in eastern California, western Nevada, and southeast Oregon. The Northern Paiute's pre-contact lifestyle was well adapted to the harsh desert environment in which they lived. Each tribe or band occupied a specific territory, generally centered on a lake or wetland which supplied fish and water-fowl. Rabbits and Pronghorn were taken from surrounding areas in communal drives, which often involved neighboring bands. Individuals and families appear to have moved freely between bands. Pinyon nuts gathered in the mountains in the fall provided critical winter food. Grass seeds and roots were also important parts of their diet. The name of each band came from a characteristic food source. For example, the people at Pyramid Lake were known as the Cui Ui Ticutta (meaning "Cui-ui eaters"), the people of the Lovelock area were known as the Koop Ticutta (meaning "ground-squirrel" eaters) and the people of the Carson Sink were known as the Toi Ticutta (meaning "tule eaters").

Relations among the Northern Paiute bands and their Shoshone neighbors were generally peaceful. In fact the distinction between the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone is not sharp. Relations with the Washoe people, who were culturally and linguistically very different, were not so peaceful.

Sustained contact between the Northern Paiute and Euro-Americans came in the early 1840s, although the first contact may have been in the 1820s. Although they had already started using horses, their culture was otherwise largely unaffected by European influences at that point. As Euro-American settlement of the area progressed, several violent incidents occurred including the Pyramid Lake War of 1860 and the Bannock War of 1878. These incidents took the general pattern of a settler steals from, rapes or murders a Paiute, a group of Paiutes retaliate and a group of settlers or the US Army counter-retaliates. Many more Paiutes died from introduced diseases such as small pox. Sarah Winnemucca's book "Life Among the Piutes"1 gives a first-hand account of this period, although it is not considered to be wholly reliable.

The first reservation established for the Northern Paiute was the Malheur Reservation in Oregon. The federal government's intention was to concentrate the Northern Paiute there, however its strategy didn't work. Due to the distance of that reservation from the traditional areas of most of the bands, and due to the poor conditions on that reservation, many Northern Paiute refused to go there and those that did soon left. Instead they clung to the traditional lifestyle as long as possible, and when environmental degradation made that impossible they sought jobs on white farms, ranches or cities and established small Indian colonies, where they were joined by many Shoshone and, in the Reno area, Washoe people. Later, large reservations were created at Pyramid Lake and Duck Valley, however by that time the pattern of small de facto reservations near cities or farm districts often with mixed Northern Paiute and Shoshone populations had been established. Starting in the early 1900s the federal government began granting land to these colonies, and under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 these colonies gained recognition as independent tribes.

Federally Recognized Tribes with Significant Northern Paiute Populations: Famous Northern Paiutes: Southern Paiute

The Southern Paiute traditionally lived in the Colorado River basin and Mojave Desert in northern Arizona, southeast California, southern Nevada, and southern Utah. The Utah Paiutes were terminated in 1954 and regained Federal Recognition in 1980. A band of Southern Paiutes at Willow Springs and Navajo Mountain, south of the Grand Canyon, reside inside the Navajo Indian Reservation. They, too were recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1980.

First European contact with the Southern Paiutes was in 1776 when Fathers Dominguez and Escalante chanced upon them on their failed attempt to find an overland route to the missions of California. In 1851, Mormon settlers strategically occupied Paiute water sources creating a dependency relationship.

Southern Paiute communities are located at Las Vegas, Pahrump, and Moapa, Nevada; Cedar City, Kanosh, Koosharem, Shivwits, and Indian Peaks,Utah; at Kaibab and Willow Springs, Arizona; and at Death Valley and Chemehuevi on the Colorado River in California. Some would include the 29 Palms Reservation in Riverside County California.

Pah Ute War

The Pah Ute War was a minor battle against, the Native American tribe, the Paiute, that had a major effect on the development of the Pony Express. It took place from January to around June in 1860.

Notes

Note 1: Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca (1994). Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (Vintage West Series). University of Nevada Press. ISBN 0874172527 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paiute" Paiute