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Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes
With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture. Any inquiring person who has worked with the Native Americans of the West will testify to the difficulties of obtaining the information he seeks. They are an old and proud and reserved race, and acceptance of outsiders is not freely given. In her twenty years of painstaking work with the Northern Paiutes, Margaret Wheat earned that full measure of acceptance. She tells the story of the generation of Native Americans whose lives were changed forever by the arrival of pioneers and prospectors in 1849.
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Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes
With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture. Any inquiring person who has worked with the Native Americans of the West will testify to the difficulties of obtaining the information he seeks. They are an old and proud and reserved race, and acceptance of outsiders is not freely given. In her twenty years of painstaking work with the Northern Paiutes, Margaret Wheat earned that full measure of acceptance. She tells the story of the generation of Native Americans whose lives were changed forever by the arrival of pioneers and prospectors in 1849.
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Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes

Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes

by Margaret M. Wheat
Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes

Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes

by Margaret M. Wheat

Overview

With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture. Any inquiring person who has worked with the Native Americans of the West will testify to the difficulties of obtaining the information he seeks. They are an old and proud and reserved race, and acceptance of outsiders is not freely given. In her twenty years of painstaking work with the Northern Paiutes, Margaret Wheat earned that full measure of acceptance. She tells the story of the generation of Native Americans whose lives were changed forever by the arrival of pioneers and prospectors in 1849.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780874174533
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Publication date: 06/01/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 140
File size: 67 MB
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About the Author

Margaret Marean Wheat (1908-1988) was a native Nevadan, born in Fallon. She attended the University of Nevada, where her bent of interest was geology. She served with the U.S. Geological Survey in 1947, was a field worker in archeology for the Nevada State Museum, and undertook projects in water resources for the Desert Research Institute of the University of Nevada. Wheat also had the unique experience of being a fire-lookout in the Toiyabe National Forest. Though she described herself as an “amateur anthropologist,” her work with Native Americans earned her the respect of her academic colleagues.

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From the Introduction:
This is the story of the Indian people who were living in the western part of Nevada when the thin line of prospectors and pioneers crossed their land in 1849 en route to the riches of California. It is the story of a people whose children watched the launching of a space probe on their TV sets; whose fathers had no government and whose sons voted for presidents. This is the story of a woman who harvested worms from pine trees for food and whose daughter studied bacteriology in college; of a man who painted his sons with the red earth-paints of the desert in order that the fast bullets of World War II would pass over their heads and the slow ones would fall short. This is the story of the way people survived using only tools made from the bone, sinew, and hides of animals, from the fibers and stems of plants, and from the stones of the desert.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Old People and the Land
The Great Basin
Trout-eaters, Cui-ui-eaters, Cattail-eaters
The Cycle of the Year
Return of Spring
Summer Harvest
Fall and Pinenut Time
Before the Snow Flies
Approach to Winter
Waiting for the Sun
Part II: The Coming of the White Man
The Next Hundred Years
Those Wise in the Old Ways
Wuzzie George
Mattie, Wife of Stovepipe
Following Mattie’s Trail
Part III: In the Manner of the Old Ones
Harvesting Pinenuts
A Boat of Cattail and Tule
Making a Duck Decoy
Cordage
Fishing and Harpoons
Arrows and Deadfalls
Rabbit Pelts, Buckskin, and Bark
Articles from Soft Fibers
Willow Work
Cradleboards
Building Houses
Notes
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