NORTHERN PAIUTE IN NEVADA

THEY WERE PART OF THREE GROUPS OF PAIUTE. THEIR NAME MEANT WATER UTE. EUROPEANS CALLED THEM DIGGERS BECAUSE THEY DUG UP ROOTS. THEIR NAME MEANT WATER UTE. EUROPEANS CALLED THEM DIGGERS BECAUSE THEY DUG UP ROOTS. THEIR LANGUAGE WAS UTO AZTECAN. THEY ARE SOMETIMES REFERED TO AS PAIUTE. THEY ADAPTED WELL TO THE HARSH DESERT ENVIRONMENT. THEY HAD COMMUNAL DRIVES THAT WERE USED FOR HUNTING RABBITS AND PRONGHORN. A MAJOR FOOD WAS GATHERED IN THE FALL - PINYON NUTS. GRASS SEEDS AND ROOTS WERE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THEIR DIET. BY 1840'S THEY USED HORSES BUT WERE NOT EUROPEAN INFLUENCES. SMALLPOX WAS AN UNWELCOME DISEASE, THEY HAD NO IMMUNITY FROM. BY 1934 UNDER THEIR INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT OF THE COLONIES THEY GAINED FEDERAL RECOGNITION.

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