Talk:Paiute

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The article conforms to a time when anthropologists still believed their own ethnocentric descriptions of the Northern Paiute (Numu). The name for the people is Numu. The Northern Paiute extend into Northern Utah. Also, the Numu are part of an interrelated people called the Punown. The Punown include: Northern and Southern Paiute, Northern and Southern Ute, Commanche, Gosiute, Southern Paiute, Northern, Western, and Eastern Shoshone amongst other peoples such as Hopi. The Numu langauge is part of the Great Northern-Uto-Aztecan langauges termed Numic. Although there were perfectly timed movements (would not call this migratory because it was within their own CONSCRIPTED territory) upon the landscape, these movements (seasonal rounds) were not done as simple wanderings but as eclectic foragers whom were biologists. The sociological organization of the Numu was (is) broad. The Numu lived in small villages in general of upward of 20-200 people. Although in some instances the village was composed of small family groups, larger villages did develop along the Sierra Nevada range. In areas such as Pyramid Lake, Walker Lake, the Humboldt Sink, Smith Valley and Owens Valley, California, and locations in Northern and Southern Oregon the Numu were known to live in semi-sedentary villages. Indigenous farming was also present at Walker, Smith, and Owens Valleys. Terming this pattern a "migaratory" lifestyle appears to be an artifact of early ethnocentric anthropology. It appears to relate to original Western encroachment on the lands of the Numu who wanted to justify their own intrusion into another peoples conscipted territory.

Please, feel free to edit the article to get rid of inaccuracies. --- hike395 00:19, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Removed content copied from http://www.nativeamericans.com/Paiute.htm. --- Toiyabe 23:32, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Split Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute?

Anybody else for spliting this page into a Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute page, while leaving Paiute as a disambig page? These two peoples spoke different languages, their territories did not border each other and they had fairly different lifeways. Seems like the fact that they're both known as Paiute is an accident of history. Toiyabe 23:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)