Northern Paiute

American  

noun

1. a member of an American Indian people of Nevada, Oregon, and California, allied to the Paiute.

2. Paiute2

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Example Sentences

The American Indian Studies Center is leading several research projects, including Indigenous perspectives on water issues, such as the diversion of snowmelt and groundwater from Northern Paiute tribal homelands — known as the Owens Valley — to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times

A variety of Indigenous cultures, including the Molalla, Kalapuya, Tenino, Wasco, Klamath, Northern Paiute and Cayuse, probably used the area for trading, hunting and the collection of plants.

From Science Daily

Lithium America's proposed lithium clay mine at Thacker Pass, sacred land to the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone, faced vehement opposition from tribes, ranchers, and environmental groups before receiving its permits in February.

From Salon

Environmentalists and local Native Americans oppose the project, saying it would desecrate land the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone consider sacred and have adverse environmental impacts on the region’s residents.

From Seattle Times

The stated goal was to return the land to its “rightful owners,” although Bundy’s newly dubbed Citizens for Constitutional Freedom seemed all but blind to the fact that the original landholders were not the white ranchers they had in mind but rather members of the Burns Paiute Tribe and their Northern Paiute Indian forbears.

From Los Angeles Times