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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.
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.
Walker River Indian Reservation: Northern Paiute: 853 [1] 529.97 Churchill, Lyon, Mineral: Washoe Tribe: Washoe: 1,116 [2] 64,300 Douglas: Includes Carson Colony, Dresslerville Colony, Stewart Community and Washoe Ranch. The tribe also maintains a colony in Alpine County, California. Winnemucca Indian Colony: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone ...
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony, Nevada; Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada; Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada; Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada; Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada ...
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony; ... Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California; Western Shoshone; Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada; Y.
Paiute (/ ˈ p aɪ juː t /; also Piute) refers to three non-contiguous groups of Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin.Although their languages are related within the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages, these three languages do not form a single subgroup and they are no more closely related to each than they are to the Central Numic languages (Timbisha, Shoshoni, and Comanche) which are ...
Located about 60 miles from Las Vegas, Pahrump was once home to the Southern Paiute Indians and didn’t install telephone service until the 1960s. Many current residents moved to the ...
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