- NORTHERN PAIUTE
- NORTHERN
PAIUTE from the U of O
Linguistics site
- Paiute History
- Northern Paiute of the Great Basin
- "The Paiutes lived in southeastern Oregon and spoke a Shoshonean dialect. The lifestyle of the Paiutes was considerably different from that of the Wasco and Warm Springs bands. Their high-plains existence required that they migrate further and more frequently for game, and fish was not an important part of their diet. The Paiute language was foreign to the Wasco and Warm Springs bands, and commerce among them was infrequent. In early times, contact between the them often resulted in skirmishes. Although Paiute territories historically included a large area from southeastern Oregon into Nevada, Idaho, and western Utah, the Paiute bands which eventually settled at Warm Springs lived in the area of Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties in Oregon." Source
- "The Northern Paiutes were made up of small peaceful bands who roamed extensively in central eastern Oregon. The Wada-Tika were root gatherers and hunters. They lived on a coarse diet of seeds, bulbs, plant fibers, berries, roots, and wild animals. They had leaders but they didn't have a formalized governmental structure or permanent chiefs." Source
- Wadatöka-Burns, Oregon
- RESERVATION Burns Paiute
- Burns Paiute Fish and Wildlife Department
- Paiute Wadatika Ma-Ni-Pu-Neen about the Burns Paiute Tribe from the Harney County Chamber of Commerce. Includes history and cultural background, treaty and reservation info, and other facts.
- PYRAMID
LAKE PAIUTE TRIBE Information
from the reservation located near Reno, NV
- Hunipuitöka-Canyon City, Oregon
- Yahuskin-Silver Lake, Oregon
- Tagötöka-Jordan and Owyhee Rivers
- Tsösö'ödö tuviwarai-Steens Mt., Oregon
RESERVATION Warm Springs Confederated Tribes which also includes Wasco (Wascopam Chinook) and Warm Springs Walla Walla.
An email received about this site.
Included with permission of the author.
My name is Diane Teeman and I am a member of the Burns Paiute Tribe, and a grad student at the UO. I found out about this site when my daughter brought home a printout from the Natives club at her school. I reviewed the link to Paiute history, and I wish to [clarify some of the information provided.]
My tribe does not currently have a web site and I am not sure if they are even considering it at this time, but they do have a tribal history pamphlet that can be accessed through the anthropology department at the UO, or by requesting it directly. One of the questions you addressed regarding the "snakes" as they were termed may be the fact that many groups were incorrectly identified in historic eyewitness accounts and Paiutes were sometimes called snakes or diggers as well as a whole bunch of less PC terms. I know that there was a lot of interaction between the Shoshone and N. Paiute, and it could also be that there were some Shoshoneans in the area at that time as well. Some of us at Burns have many cousins from Idaho, Nevada, California, etc. Regarding the forced removal of our people, we did at one time have the largest reservation in the State of Oregon, (located in Grant, Harney, and Malheur counties) and when our people were marched to Washington, it was illegally returned to public domain. Some of the people did go to Warm Springs, but others, from the Wada Tika band, returned home, and their descendants are the Burns Paiute. Northern Paiute territory did include the sisters-Bend area although I cannot name the band right off hand that habitually inhabited that northern area, but the Warm Springs Reservation was not too far away from home for some folks. I just wanted to clarify, that our history did not begin at Warm Springs, I guess that should go without saying, and that Paiute peoples did fish for both resident fish populations and salmon species that came up the North Fork of the John Day, the Malheur River, and the Owyhee River drainages. One last note, we do have a cultural resource department at Burns that are available to answer questions regarding our past, present, and future, here is the phone # 541-573-2088 ext.247. Lastly I just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to put all of this information together so that people may learn about the first peoples of this area.
Sincerely,
Diane L. Teeman