Chief Wahveveh, also spelled Wewawewa (d. 1866) was a Northern Paiute warrior and half-brother of Chief Paulina

Chief Paulina

Chief Paulina was a Northern Paiute war leader.During the late 1850s and 1860s, Northern Paiute bands attacked both settler communities and Native American reservations in central and eastern Oregon, as well as the Klamath Basin. Chief Paulina became the most notorious war leader in those raids...

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During the raids of the 1860s in Central Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

, Wahveveh aided his brother in attacks on the Warm Springs Chief, Poustaminie. His tribe, the Tyghs were attacked by Wahveveh's band while they were building a bridge. During the skirmish Poustaminie approached the Paiutes and laid down his weapons to show his peaceful intentions but Wahveveh had him killed by one of his braves.
In a related incident taken on by his brother Chief Paulina a scouting party organized for the intention of vengeance for Paulina's murder of Wasco

Wasco-Wishram

Wasco-Wishram are two closely related Chinook Indian tribes from the Columbia River in Oregon. Today the tribes are part of the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation in Washington.-History:...

 Chief Queapama. This party was led by Billy Chinook

Billy Chinook

Billy Chinook was a member of the Wasco Indian tribe. He acted as a guide for John C. Frémont in the region of Central Oregon. In the summer 1866 Bill Chinook and over twenty other Indian scouts mostly made up of Wascos spotted a Paiute camp near Dry Creek, 13 miles south of Ochoco Creek...

 and other Wasco Indians. They attacked a Paiute camp at Dry Creek capturing or killing all 32 Paiutes. The scouting party also located Paulina above Lake Henry on Steens Mountain

Steens Mountain

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. Paulina retreated to a cave protected by boulders but Chief Wahveveh and two other Paiutes were not able to escape and were killed by the Wascos.

Wahveveh also led an attack against the Oregon Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Oliver C. Applegate. The Lieutenant was killed in combat in 1866.

Wahvevah and Paulina had a third brother, Oitsi, who also fought alongside them.