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Winnemucca (/ ˌ w ɪ n ə ˈ m ʌ k ə / ⓘ) is the only incorporated city in, and is the county seat of Humboldt County, Nevada, United States. [5] As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 8,431, [6] up 14.0 percent from the 2010 census figure of 7,396.
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 .
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 ...
The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada has a reservation at in Humboldt County, Nevada. The reservation was established on June 18, 1917, and comprises two parcels of land, 20 acres (0.081 km 2 ) enclosed within the urban area of the City of Winnemucca centered on Cinnabar Street, and 320 acres (1.3 km 2 ) of rural land on the southern edge of ...
Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between Washoe and Pershing counties, [ 1 ] it was a shallow lake until the 1930s, but was dried when a dam and a road were built that combined to restrict and block water flow.
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."
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 ...
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