purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. "Legends of the Northern Paiute shares and preserves twenty-one ...

Sarah Winnemucca (Northern Paiute) was an early advocate for Native American rights during a time when the federal government was actively campaigning for the extermination of Native peoples.

The story is heartbreaking. Brutal. Shameful. Yet all these years later, it still holds lessons from which we can’t look away. It’s the little-known story of the forced relocation of more than 500 ...

International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 83, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 561-601 (41 pages) Like other Numic languages (Uto-Aztecan), Northern Paiute has a morphological process of durative ...

In August 1975, a building burned down at Fort Simcoe Historical State Park. A photo published in the Yakima Herald-Republic from that time shows charred rubble in the foreground, with the park’s ...

Esa Nasumuna means Wolf Pack in Northern Paiute (Numu). If you take a Paiute language class from Pyramid Lake Paiute elder Ralph Burns *, you might learn that “Esa Nasumuna” can be translated to “Wolf ...

In the late 1800s the Paiutes of Eastern Oregon were forced to march from their reservation near Malheur Lake to the Yakima Reservation nearly 350 miles away through the deep winter snow. It was a ...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which is commemorated on the second Monday of October each year, provides us with an opportunity to honor and to learn more about the heritage, resilience, and legacy of ...

For the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, the Northeastern Indian Water Rights Settlement Act means more than water — it means finally claiming land they can call home. Although the tribe has lived in ...