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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Paiute"”.
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The mastery of cultural contradictions: developing Paiute Indian leadership.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Persistence in Aurora, Nevada: Survival Strategies of the Northern Paiute
… evidence surveyed from a group of historic Paiute sites located outside of the mining town, Aurora, Nevada, and historical documentation will be used to track potential persistence tactics. The focus will be on persistence tactics taken up by the Aurora Paiute population during the late …
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Pawns of fate: Chinese/Paiute intercultural marriages, 1860-1920, Walker River Reservation, Schurz, Nevada
… between Chinese immigrant men and Northern Paiute women who lived on or around the Walker River Reservation between 1860 and 1920, the years in which census manuscript records have been made public. Because of federal, state, and local laws, Chinese men sometimes sought marriage partners …
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Coping With Neighbors & other entanglements
… for the Kooyooe fish and the people from the Paiute nation. Situated in the state currently known as Nevada, where the Paiute people have lived for over 9,000 years, Pyramid Lake is the Kooyooe's home. The 1905 Truckee River damming and ensuing history of water rights struggles have endangered …
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The center of the universe: A ceremony at Pipe Spring Sweat Lodge
… The spiritual leader of the lodge is a Southern Paiute man who conducts open ceremonies so that all people may participate in the process of cleansing body and spirit. The ritual process brings together the positive effects of group interaction and fosters spiritual growth for individuals and the …
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The reconstitutive power of Wovoka's prophetic discourse: A rhetorical history of the 1890 Ghost Dance Prophet
… which included every native nation, not just the Paiute. Delegations that came to hear Wovoka speak and letters he sent to the faithful spread the tenets of the religion among the indigenous people. Wovoka's rhetorical history illustrates the interplay of first persona, substantive message, and …
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Finding Pesa Sooname: Using Documentary Film to Explore Selfhood and Personhood Within the Context of Dementia at the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe
… - conducted in partnership with the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe - utilizes Video- Based Dialogical Analysis to unpack how tribal elders living with dementia are supported in preserving selfhood and personhood. The analysis employs a dialogical research framework, which rejects the tendency to …
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Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS to Modeling Fire for Vegetative Restoration in Northern Arizona
… predict prescribed fire behavior on the Kaibab-Paiute Reservation. ArcGIS was used to create a database incorporating all variables into a common spatial reference system and format for the FARSITE model. ArcGIS Spatial Analyst was then used to select optimal burn sites for simulation. Our …
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Late Holocene Toolstone Procurement and Land-Use Strategies in the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Country of Northwest Nevada
… This is achieved through: lithic analysis from Paiute Creek Shelter (PCS), a recently excavated rock shelter with stratified cultural remains spanning the Late Holocene; X-ray fluorescence analysis of artifacts from PCS, Hanging Rock Shelter, Silent Snake Springs, and Smokey Creek Cave; and …
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Cultural Mapping of a Folkloric People
… the Great Basin region. The Si-teh-cah as the Paiute referred to them was a mysterious group of purported cannibalistic giants. The study of this myth helps aid the understanding of the archetypical motifs and their roles in society. The underpinning of this research is to understand the …
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"""That Is What I Said to Him"": American Women's Narratives About Indians, 1879-1934"
… in my study--white novelist Helen Hunt Jackson, Paiute orator Sarah Winnemucca, and Clackamas Chinook storyteller Victoria Howard--venture rare and radical critiques of the possessive individualism that has historically underwritten both U.S. Indian policy and conceptions of American national …