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The Northern Paiute people are a Numic people who have traditionally lived in the Great Basin region of the United States in what is now eastern California, western Nevada, and southeast Oregon. The Northern Paiute pre-contact lifestyle was well adapted to the harsh desert environment in which they lived.
Sarah (née Winnemucca) Hopkins (c. 1844 – October 17, 1891) was a Northern Paiute writer, activist, lecturer, teacher, and school organizer. Her Northern Paiute name was Thocmentony, also spelled Tocmetone, [1] which translates as "Shell Flower."
Her native name was Pamahas, which translates to "Meadows" in the Northern Paiute language. [2] Her parents were Louisa and Mack Tom. [2] Her maternal grandparents were Mono Lake Paiute Captain Sam and Mono "Yosemite Paiute" Susie Sam. She and her family lived in Yosemite Valley and at Mono Lake. As a child, Telles played near Galen Clark's ...
Carrie Bethel, Mono Lake Paiute basket weaver, 1898–1974; Gloria Bird, Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation poet and critic [10] Mary Holiday Black (ca. 1934), Navajo basket maker and textile artist; Black Buffalo Woman , first wife of Crazy Horse; Black Shawl (Lakota, died 1920), second wife of Crazy Horse
Nellie Shaw Harnar (June 8, 1905 – 1985) was a Northern Paiute historian and educator who contributed to the preservation of Paiute history and culture. Her seminal work, Indians of Coo-Yu-Ee Pah (Pyramid Lake): The History of Pyramid Lake Indians in Nevada, first published in 1974, provides a comprehensive account of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation.
The first people from the Paiute tribe to arrive on reservation were the 38 Paiutes that were forced to move onto the Warm Springs Reservation from the Yakama Reservation in 1879. Soon more arrived and they eventually became a permanent part of the Warm Springs Reservation.
Wuzzie Dick George (c. 1880 – December 20, 1984) was a Northern Paiute craftsperson who worked to preserve the traditional lifeways and tribal customs of her people. She served as a key collaborator in anthropologist's Margaret Wheat's efforts to record Northern Paiute lifeways.
Jean LaMarr (born 1945) is a Northern Paiute/Achomawi artist and activist from California. She creates murals, prints, dioramas, sculptures, and interactive installations. She is an enrolled citizen of the Susanville Indian Rancheria. [2]