Acculturation and Culture Contact

Sociocultural Trends

Animal by-Products

Recreational and Non-Therapeutic Drugs

Leather Industry

Mats and Basketry

Felted and Other Non-Interworked Fabrics

Ornament

Jewelry Manufacture

Ceramic Technology

Lithic Industries

Utensils

External Trade

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Visual Arts

Norms

Nuclear Family

Extended Families

Kinship Terminology

Gambling

Athletic Sports

Rest Days and Holidays

Dance

Prayers and Sacrifices

Organized Ceremonial

Social Control

Magical and Mental Therapy

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Sacred Objects and Places

Revelation and Divination

Bibliographies in Sources

Cultural Participation

Music

Sorcery

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Social Readjustments to Death

Material Not Relevant

Collecting

Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

Domesticated Animals

Pastoral Activities

Tillage

Labor Supply and Employment

Status, Role, and Prestige

External Relations

Public Welfare

Litigation

Instigation of War

Warfare

Speech

Linguistic Identification

Reviews and Critiques

Historical Reconstruction

History

Human Effects on Environment

Settlement Patterns

Real Property

Grandparents and Grandchildren

Status of Children

Techniques of Socialization

Inheritance

Rules of Descent

Ethics

Political Movements

Eschatology

Spirits and Gods

Congregations

Religious Denominations

Ethnometeorology

Ethnozoology

Identification

Pharmaceuticals

Medical Therapy

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Verbal Arts

Buying and Selling

Production and Supply

Exchange Transactions

Internal Trade

Ethos

Accumulation of Wealth

Age Stratification

Social Relationships and Groups

Community Heads

Community Councils

Informal in-Group Justice

Division of Labor by Gender

Child Care

Property System

Friendships

Regulation of Marriage

Household

Kin Relationships

Kindreds and Ramages

Community Structure

Population

Composition of Population

Annual Cycle

Gift Giving

Basis of Marriage

Mode of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Nuptials

Termination of Marriage

Residence

Polygamy

Food Preparation

Dwellings

Outbuildings

Sleeping

Legal Norms

Judicial Authority

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ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CREDITS

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

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Traditionally the Northern Paiute were located in the Great Basin region in western Nevada, northeastern California, southwestern Idaho, and central and eastern Oregon, but as of the late twentieth century are now  found primarily around Tama, Idaho.  Hunting, fishing and gathering were the primary subsistence activities, but by the late twentieth century ranching and wage labor also formed an important part of the economy.  The nuclear and extended family is the basic unit of social organization along with the kindred and the camp group of which each family was part. Religion was based on shamanism for the purpose of curing and weather control, with sorcery or the threat of sorcery used as a means of social control.

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