Paiute
The First People in the High Desert (Photo Diary)
The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, has a gallery which takes visitors on a journey through some of the most dramatic periods in the […]
Paiute
Wodziwob’s Ghost Dance
During the nineteenth century there were a number of religious movements that developed among diverse Indian tribes. One of these, called the Ghost Dance by […]
American Indian Biography: Sarah Winnemucca
In 1879, Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute from Nevada and the daughter of Chief Winnemucca, gave a series of lectures in San Francisco and Sacramento on […]
The Bannock War
( – promoted by navajo) A casual reading of almost any book on American history-from popular accounts to textbooks to scholarly tomes-reveals that there have […]
Indians 101: Murder in Montana (19th Century)
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey The West in the nineteenth century was at times violent and this violence was sometimes expressed […]
Utah’s Black Hawk War
( – promoted by navajo) During 1865 to 1867, American and Mormon settlers in Utah were engaged in a war with a small group of […]
Mormons and Indians in Early Utah
( – promoted by navajo) In 1847, the Mormons entered what is now Utah and began to build their Kingdom of God on Earth. There […]
American Indian Candidates: John Oceguera
( – promoted by oke) For thousands of years the Agai-Dicutta Numu (Trout Eaters People) band of the Northern Paiute had lived within the Great […]
Earthquakes and Native American Spirituality
There have been a number of major earthquakes recently-Haiti, Chile, Turkey-and, as usual, there have been some religious explanations about why they happened. During the […]