Nellis AFB - Ethnology Documents

Part of: Nellis Air Force Base Cultural Resources Archive

Other Keywords
Ethnography • Traditional Uses • Kinship • Kinship Charts • Traditional Use • puha • OST • Native American ethnographers • politcal unit • high chief system

Investigation Types
Ethnographic Research • Consultation • Environment Research • Ethnohistoric Research

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • Nevada (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Clark (County) • Nye (County) • Las Vegas, Nevada • USA (Country) • Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada • Black Mountain • Oasis Valley

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  • Documents (17)
  • American Indians and the Nevada Test Site: A Model of Research and Consultation (2001)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

    The chapters in this volume examine the history, evolution, dynamics, and results to date of an ongoing consultation relationship between the U.S. Department of Energy Nevada operations Office (DOE/NV) and 20 tribes and organizations composed of ethnic Numic speaking, Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone people.

  • American Indians and the Old Spanish Trail (2007)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Kathleen A. Van Vlack. Rebecca S. Toupal. Sean M. O'Meara. Richard Arnold.

    The purpose of this study is to provide an ethnohistoric and ethnographic assessment of selected contemporary communities along the Old Spanish Trail.

  • Ancient Voices Storied Places 2003: Themes in Contemporary Indian History (2003)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

    Collection of essays addressing the history of Numic-speaking American Indians. The goal of this study is to revisit historical processes and events that transformed the lives of these Americans so profoundly that their effects are still being felt today.

  • Ancient Voices, Storied Places: New Essays in Contemporary Indian History (2004)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Alex K. Carroll. Richard W. Stoffle.

    The present essays, that are officially referred to as “”Project 2,” further document the Numic and Yuman cultural attachments to portions of central Nevada represented in Black Mountain and the Black Mountain District.

  • Appendix C: A Sampling of Kinship Charts (2020)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

    A Sample of Kinship charts.

  • Black Mountain Ethnographic Study U-Nav-Kai-Vi Duepeth Toyave: Volume I (2005)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jordan Haagen

    This study describes the interviews, results, and the recommendations of the Native Americans consulted for information that would assist in the protection of sacred and cultural sites.

  • From Red Spring to Cane Spring: Landscapes of Movement along the Greater Belted Range DRAFT (2005)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Maria Nieves Zedeño. Fletcher P. Chmara-Huff. Alex K. Carroll. Rebecca S. Toupal.

    This report summarizes published and unpublished historical, archaeological, and ethnographic information on the Native American use, history, and occupancy of the Belted Range, Nye County, Nevada.

  • The High Chief System Of The Southern Paiute Nation Draft (1999)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle.

    Discussion of traditional southern Paiute political units.

  • Native American Ethnographic Interview Report (1997)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Native American Ethnographers Subgroup, Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations.

    The primary purpose of the report is to begin collecting data from knowledgeable Indian people who have demonstrated cultural and historic ties to the NAFR. Participating in this study are the American Indian people (with traditional cultural ties to these lands) who have been consulting with the United States Air Force since January 1996. This report may be considered an appendix or companion document to the Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Overview produced in January 1997 for the first year of...

  • Native American Ethnographic Resources at Wildhorse Spring, Nevada (2020)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

    Questionnaires used in the Native American Ethnographic Resources Study at Wildhorse Springs, Nevada.

  • The Nellis Air Force Base Native American Dry Lakes Study (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracey Henderson.

    It was the goal of this project to gather information from Native American informants regarding the use of dry lake margins in the Great Basin and southern Utah. The information was both supportive to and supported by regional ethnographic data.

  • Puha Flows from It: The Cultural Landscape Study of the Spring Mountains (2004)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Fletcher P. Chmara-Huff. Kathleen A. Van Vlack. Rebecca S. Toupal.

    This is a report of findings about American Indian cultural concerns for places and landscapes in the Spring Mountain range in what is today called southern Nevada. More specifically it is a study of how people who speak a Numic language and who call themselves Nuwuvi or Nungwu, and are known in English as Southern Paiutes, interact with the Spring Mountain range.

  • Puha Flows from It: The Spring Mountains Cultural Landscape Study (2003)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle.

    This is a report of findings about American Indian cultural concerns for places and landscapes in the Spring Mountain range in what is today called southern Nevada. More specifically it is a study of how people who speak a Numic language and who call themselves Nuwuvi or Nungwu, and are known in English as Southern Paiutes, interact with the Spring Mountain range. Included is a PDF presentation on the ethnography.

  • Sources Used to Determine Which Native American Groups Have Ancestral Ties to the Nellis Air Force Range (2020)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

    The following document was written by ethnographers to initially determine the authenticity of groups in the region who has ancestral ties to the southern Great Basin. These people were hunter-gatherers who moved over 1000 or more square miles of territory.

  • Thirsty Canyon, Nevada Test and Training Range, and The Shoshones of Oasis Valley (2005)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Ginny Bengston.

    The Shoshone families who wintered in Oasis Valley spent most of the year traveling around in search of plants and animals that they used for food, medicine, and other subsistence purposes. This study focuses on one area that was used for these purposes, Thirsty Canyon, and the Shoshone people who used the area until its closure to the public in the 1940s.

  • U-Nav-Kai-Vi Duepeth Toyave: Volume Two Black Mountain-Thirsty Canyon Traditional Uses of a Volcanic Landscape (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Richard W. Arnold. Kathleen Van Vlack. Sean M. O'Meara. Jessica L. Medwied-Savage.

    The research presented in this document builds upon the ethnohistoric, ethnographic, ethnobotanical and ethnozoological information that was discussed in the first Black Mountain study. The lands of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) were traditionally occupied and used by the Numic people.

  • The Wellington Canyon Ethnographic Study at Pintwater Range Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (2000)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Stoffle. M. Nieves Zedeno. Jaime K. Eyrich. Patrick Barabe.

    This is the first report prepared by the University of Arizona (UofA) ethnographic team for the Native American Interaction Program (NAIP) of Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB). This study, and all future ones facilitated by the UofA, involve working with a committee of Native American advisors appointed by the representatives of the NAIP. This report is a collection of open-ended essays that are expected to provide a foundation for dialog between the NAFB and the participating tribes and...