purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. "Legends of the Northern Paiute shares and preserves twenty-one ...

Sarah Winnemucca (Northern Paiute) was an early advocate for Native American rights during a time when the federal government was actively campaigning for the extermination of Native peoples.

She was born in 1844 to the Northern Paiute people near the Humboldt River. Her parents named her Thocmetony after the beautiful shell flower that manages to bloom following even the harshest winter ...

The story is heartbreaking. Brutal. Shameful. Yet all these years later, it still holds lessons from which we can’t look away. It’s the little-known story of the forced relocation of more than 500 ...

In August 1975, a building burned down at Fort Simcoe Historical State Park. A photo published in the Yakima Herald-Republic from that time shows charred rubble in the foreground, with the park’s ...

Nestled between the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada, the University of Nevada, Reno sits on the traditional homelands of the Washoe and Northern Paiute peoples, with close ties to the Shoshone and ...

Her eyes fixed on the horizon, the Paiute woman is far from home but always striving. In a city filled to bursting with tributes to America’s most powerful political leaders, almost all of them of men ...

Ralph Burns takes on a number of titles, including Pyramid Lake Paiute elder, storyteller and native-language specialist. This fall, he will add University of Nevada, Reno lecturer to the list.

Around this time in normal years, Burning Man would be taking place in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Nearly 80,000 people attended the annual arts event in 2019, which started in the mid-80s and ...