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Political life[ edit ] Winnemucca the Younger his alternative name "Bad Face" will be used in the remainder of this article eventually became war chief of the Kuyuidika. He distrusted white settlers more than did his father-in-law. He is primarily known through the writings of his daughter, Sarah Winnemucca. She downplayed his Shoshone roots and connections to distinguish her father and her people as peaceful and to protect them from the prejudice many settlers held against the more warlike Shoshone, also called "Snake Indians". Since she served as an interpreter in the area, her viewpoint was adopted by many contemporary Oregonians. At the time of the formation of the Paviotso Confederacy at the Ochoco Council of , the Paiute were more allied with his father-in-law, Old Chief One Moccasin 's plea to keep the peace. The Paiute did not then join the Shoshone and Northern Ute warriors in the war effort. Wells' Nevada Volunteer cavalrymen raided their family camp on the shore of what is now known as Winnemucca Lake. He had little control over events at the Malheur Reservation leading to the Bannock War of Paiute Tribe on Native American AuthorsThe Southern Paiute's traditional territory included much of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah.
They were a hunter-gatherer society that developed some farming. The Southern Paiute's language is similar to that of the Pima and Papago cultures.
Arizona: Southern Paiute
When the Spanish arrived they took Paiute boys and men and sold them as slaves to the miners in Central Mexico. The Southern Paiutes quickly lost their land in the s and became laborers and craftsmen. The Chief is considered to be the most learned, and the leader of the tribe. The Doctor, however, is thought to have more inspiration.
He is supposed to be in communion with Natjve He cures the sick by the laying hands, and prayers and incantations and heavenly songs. He infuses new life into the patient and performs most wonderful feats of skill in his practice He clothes himself in the skins of young innocent animals, such as the fawn, and decorated himself with the plumage of harmless birds, such as the dove and the hummingbird Supporting long-term solutions.
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