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Ethnie: PAIUTE, SOUTHERN
Language: Southern Numic
Family: Numic
Stock: Uto-Aztecan
Phylum: Aztec-Tanoan
Macro-Culture: Great Basin

 

 

 

 

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The Southern Paiute were a nomadic poor hunter/gatherer dialectic division mostly of the so called "digger" culture though a number in their southeast range were sedentary farmers. They occupied a large arid area which included western Utah, northwestern Arizona, southeastern Nevada and portions of California east of the Sierra Nevada. They are closely related to the Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu and Koso. They avoided White contact, thereby resulting in little of their history being recorded.
Aboriginal Locations
Bands:  AZ 2, CA 3, NV 11,  UT 8
Present California Locations
CHEMEHUEVI RESERVATION, Havasu Lake
TULE RIVER RESERVATION, Porterville
Year History
1776 Visited by Father Escalante
1849 Gold rush into California and Nevada, livestock depleted food supplies
Year Total Population California Estimate Source
1700 1,500 150 NAHDB calculation
1800 1,500 150 NAHDB calculation
1873 1,500 U. S. Indian Office
1900 900 50 NAHDB calculation
1910 780 Census
1930 294 Census
1937 439 U. S. Indian Office
1970 500 Census
1989 713 BIA
2000 800 50 NAHDB calculation
Other speakers of the same language:
Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu, Ute
Southern Paiute Sites
Paiute    http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/cultural/northamerica/paiute.html
Southern Paiute    http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/People/southern_paiute.htm
Southern Paiute    http://www.unr.edu/nnap/NT/sp-1.htm
Southern Paiute Coiled Basket    http://hrcweb.lv-hrc.nevada.edu/mbm/PAIUTEBASKET.html
Southern Paiute Plant Use    http://www.lvrj.com/communitylink/sma/echo/augoct/echo6.html
Sugar and Salt    http://www.abotech.com/Articles/Campbell01.htm
Two Women and Coyote    http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jade12/women&coyote.htm

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