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Northern Paiute, Ruth Hoodie Lewis, Timothy Thornes
Northern Paiute, Ruth Hoodie Lewis, Timothy Thornes
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Northern Paiute (ISO 639-3, pao) is a Numic language of the Western branch and represents the northwestern-most extent of the Uto-Aztecan family. The language is described as consisting of two major dialects and numerous subdialects. Nichols (1974) refers to the southern Northern Paiute dialect as Nevada Northern Paiute (NNP, historically also called Paviotso) and the northern variety represented here as Oregon Northern Paiute (ONP, which includes Bannock). Speaker estimates are somewhat anecdotal but generally fall within the 400–700 range. Speakers are unevenly distributed across various reservation communities of the northern Great Basin region of the western United States. Speakers of …
Toidɨkadɨ (Cattail-Eaters) Of Stillwater Marsh, Tim Thornes
Toidɨkadɨ (Cattail-Eaters) Of Stillwater Marsh, Tim Thornes
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Wuzzie George (b. ~1880, d. December 20, 1984) was, by all accounts, a true keeper of traditional knowledge. Over the course of more than three decades, she provided detailed ethnographic information about her people, the Toidɨkadɨ (Cattail-Eaters), for ethnographer Margaret Wheat (1967) and anthropologist and historical linguist Catherine S. Fowler (1992). Wuzzie also had an ongoing working relationship with the intrepid folklorist Sven Liljeblad, as evidenced by this prayer, which she composed for him in Fallon, Nevada, during a time of illness.
Northern Paiute Texts: Introduction, Tim Thornes, Maziar Toosarvandani
Northern Paiute Texts: Introduction, Tim Thornes, Maziar Toosarvandani
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
This volume of Northern Paiute texts is the result of continued collaborative relationships between members of several Northern Paiute (Western Numic; Uto-Aztecan) speech communities and two linguists who have nearly 30 years of combined experience working on the language. The resulting documentary resource provides varied samples of naturally occurring speech—narratives recorded and analyzed by the editors as part of their own fieldwork as well as materials recorded of earlier generations of speakers. In one case, materials from three generations of speakers from the same speech community are provided. By providing access in a single volume to previously inaccessible texts from …
Kuiyuidɨkadɨ (Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada), Tim Thornes
Kuiyuidɨkadɨ (Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada), Tim Thornes
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
The Pyramid Lake Reservation is about an hour’s drive northeast of Reno, Ne- vada. As such, it lies close to the major isogloss boundary that separates Oregon Northern Paiute (including Bannock) from Nevada Northern Paiute (Paviotso). The lake, a remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan, is home to the endemic Lahontan cutthroat trout, known locally as kuiyui, and is a popular fishery.