Northern Paiute

North Americahunter-gatherers
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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.

Identifier
Region
  • North America
Subregion
  • Southwest and Basin
Subsistence Type
  • hunter-gatherers
Samples
Countries
  • United States
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