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Winnemucca (c. 1820 – 1882) (also called Wobitsawahkah, Bad Face, Winnemucca the Younger, Mubetawaka, and Poito) was a Northern Paiute war chief. He was...

19th-century Chief Winnemucca of the local Northern Paiute tribe, who traditionally lived in this area. Winnemucca, translated, means "the giver." The chief's daughter...

Anglo-American settlers. She was the daughter of Chief Winnemucca of the Paiute nation and the granddaughter of Chief Truckee. At 16, Sarah studied at a Catholic...

of Spiritual Gifts, Old Winnemucca, One Moccasin, Onennamucca, One-ah-mucca), or Old Chief Winnemucca, was a medicine chief of the Northern Paiute people...

Winnemucca can refer to: Winnemucca, Nevada Winnemucca Indian Colony, a reservation in Nevada Winnemucca Lake, a dry lake bed in Nevada Winnemucca Indian...

to a Northern Paiute is attributed to them". Sarah Winnemucca, daughter of Paiute Chief Winnemucca, wrote in 1883 about what she described as "a small...

Truckee (chief), a Northern Paiute leader, father of Chief Winnemucca and grandfather of Sarah Winnemucca Truckee, California, a city named after Chief Truckee...

endemic among the Europeans. The Natives had no acquired immunity. Sarah Winnemucca's book Life Among the Piutes (1883) gives a first-hand account of this...

said by some to be the son of Chief Winnemucca (also called Po-i-to) and brother of Sarah Winnemucca. Sarah Winnemucca wrote that he was her cousin. Another...

(1959) as Santiago Santos Bonanza (1959, Episode: "The Paiute War") as Chief Winnemucca Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961) as Andy Damon Gunsmoke (1962, S7E17:...

The Winnemucca Formation is an Triassic period geologic formation in northwestern Nevada, USA. It is found in the Sonoma Range in Humboldt County. It preserves...

The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada is a federally recognized tribe of Western Shoshone and Northern Paiute Indians in northwestern Nevada. The Winnemucca...

by Chief Winnemucca that a band of Smoke Creek Paiutes were the likely thieves. However, Sarah Winnemucca wrote that her father, Chief Winnemucca, and...

after a Paiute chief, whose assumed Paiute name was Tru-ki-zo. He was the father of Chief Winnemucca and grandfather of Sarah Winnemucca. The first Europeans...

warriors were Cheegibah (Leggins), son of Natchez (Boy) and grandson of Chief Winnemucca the Younger; Otiz (Left Hand), grandson of Owitze (Twisted Hand) and...

Paiute leaders, including Chief Truckee. At the time, Ormsby was supervising the education of Sarah Winnemucca, daughter of a chief. Given his military and...

claimed that residents of the reservation included descendants of Chief Winnemucca, an early 19th-century Paiute leader. The Lahontan cutthroat trout...

Sarah Winnemucca Chief Winnemucca, also known as Old Winnemucca, Sarah's father and a war leader Canfield, Gae Whitney (1988). Sarah Winnemucca of the...

by United States Army troops under Captain William Weatherlow and Chief Winnemucca and the Paiutes, who assisted in tracking the Pit River Indians involved...

Perhaps the most famous resident of the Como region was Chief Truckee, father of Chief Winnemucca, and befriender of white men. He was the purported savior...