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Numaga, or "Young Winnemucca", Sarah Winnemucca's cousin and war leader of the Paiute in the Pyramid Lake War. With the decreasing pressure of new migrants in the region attracted to the Washoe silver finds, Old Winnemucca arranged in 1859 to have his daughters returned to him again in Nevada. In 1860, open conflict occurred.
However, Sarah Winnemucca, whose sister was the sole survivor of the attack, transcribed the story from the perspective of the Kuyuidika-a Paiute; [6] "The soldiers rode up to their encampment and fired into it, and killed almost all the people that were there. Oh, it is a fearful thing to tell, but it must be told.
He was said by some to be the son of Chief Winnemucca (also called Po-i-to) and brother of Sarah Winnemucca. [5] Sarah Winnemucca wrote that he was her cousin. [6] Another source says he was no relative of Poito, and the two were never friendly. [4] Numaga was called "Young Winnemucca" by the whites, or sometimes just "Winnemucca". [4] Numaga ...
Winnemucca (son-in-law), Sarah Winnemucca (granddaughter) Truckee (died 1860), also known as Captain Truckee , Wuna Mucca , [ 1 ] The Giver of Spiritual Gifts , [ 1 ] Old Winnemucca , One Moccasin , [ 1 ] Onennamucca , [ 1 ] One-ah-mucca ), or Old Chief Winnemucca , was a medicine chief of the Northern Paiute people and an influential prophet ...
Winnemucca (c. 1820 – 1882) (also called Wobitsawahkah, Bad Face, Winnemucca the Younger, Mubetawaka, and Poito [1]) was a Northern Paiute war chief. He was born a Shoshone around 1820 in what would later become the Oregon Territory. [1] When he married the daughter of Old Winnemucca, he became a Paiute according to their
Sarah got married one year before her sister, in 1980, to Neil McCorquodale. The couple have three children, Emily, George, and Celia, and are still together today. She was very involved with ...
Numaga, also known as Young Winnemucca, a war chief of the Northern Paiute and Poito's nephew. Natchez, also known as Little Winnemucca, a chief of the Northern Paiute and Poito's son. Poito's daughter, Sarah Winnemucca, activist, educator, and advocate for the Northern Paiute. Truckee, also known as Old Winnemucca, a chief of the Northern ...
Alissa Turney, 17, vanished in 2001. Her half-sister Sarah has been investigating for decades. "I will never give up," she tells PEOPLE.