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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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Northern Paiute

Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute fishing

Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute

Notes on Shoshonean ethnography

Northern Paiute shamanism revisited

Paviotso shamanism

Paviotso polyandry

Shamanism in western North America

Honey Lake Paiute ethnography

Northern Paiute polyandry

Notes on Paviotso material culture

Paiute sorcery

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Fowler, Catherine S.	Culture Summary	2012
Fowler, Catherine S.	Northern Paiute	1986
Fowler, Catherine S.	Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute fishing	1981
Kelly, Isabel T. (Isabel Truesdell)	Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute	1934
Lowie, Robert Harry	Notes on Shoshonean ethnography	1924
Olofson, Harold	Northern Paiute shamanism revisited	1979
Park, Willard Z. (Willard Zerbe), d. 1965	Paviotso shamanism	1934
Park, Willard Z. (Willard Zerbe), d. 1965	Paviotso polyandry	1937
Park, Willard Z. (Willard Zerbe), d. 1965	Shamanism in western North America	1938
Riddell, Francis A.	Honey Lake Paiute ethnography	1960
Stewart, Omer Call	Northern Paiute polyandry	1937
Wheat, Margaret M.	Notes on Paviotso material culture	1959
Whiting, Beatrice Blyth	Paiute sorcery	1950

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