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The Southern Paiute people / ˈ p aɪ juː t / are a tribe of Native Americans who have lived in the Colorado River basin of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah. Bands of Southern Paiute live in scattered locations throughout this territory and have been granted federal recognition on several reservations.
The Summit Lake Paiute Tribe has a federal reservation, the Summit Lake Indian Reservation, at in Humboldt County, Nevada The reservation was established in 1913 and is 12,573 acres (50.9 km 2 ), with 10,098 acres (40.9 km 2 ) of trust lands. [ 3 ]
Seeing the tribe's dispossession, on December 30, 1911 Helen J. Stewart, owner of the pre-railroad Las Vegas Rancho, deeded 10 acres (4.0 ha) of spring-fed downtown Las Vegas land to the Paiutes, creating the Las Vegas Indian Colony. Until 1983 this was the tribe's only communal land, forming a small "town within a town" in downtown Las Vegas.
Ona Dükadü, Onabedukadu, Onabe Dukadu, Ona Dukadu, or Ozav Dika: "Salt-Eaters" or "Alkali Eaters", also known as auch als Soda Springs Valley Paiute or Coleville Paiute, they lived in California-Nevada-region from Coleville, California in the Antelope Valley to the Monte Cristo Range and the Excelsior Mountains, today part of the Bridgeport ...
Pyramid Lake Museum. The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation (Northern Paiute: kuyuuiba) [4] [5] is a United States reservation in northwestern Nevada, approximately 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Reno, in Washoe, Storey, and Lyon counties.
The Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone peoples, whose reservation Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation spans the Nevada and Oregon border next to Idaho. [7]
As of 2009 the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe's headquarters is located in Fallon, Nevada. [5] The tribe is governed by a seven-person tribal council, [3] with Len George serving as the Tribal Chairperson as of 2009. [6]
The term "Paiute" does not refer to a single, unique, unified group of Great Basin tribes, but is a historical label comprising: Northern Paiute people of northeastern California, northwestern Nevada, eastern Oregon, and southern Idaho; Southern Paiute people of northern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah