Winnemucca
Encyclopedia
Places
- Winnemucca, NevadaWinnemucca, Nevada-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 7,174 people, 2,736 households, and 1,824 families residing in the city. The population density was 867.5 people per square mile . There were 3,280 housing units at an average density of 396.6 per square mile...
- Winnemucca Indian Colony, a reservation in Nevada
- Winnemucca LakeWinnemucca LakeWinnemucca Lake, just east of Pyramid Lake in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Nevada is on the dividing line between Washoe County and Pershing County counties.- Geography :...
, a dry lake bed in Nevada
Tribes
- Winnemucca Indian Colony of NevadaWinnemucca Indian Colony of NevadaThe Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada is a federally recognized tribe of Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone Indians in western Nevada.-Reservation:...
, a federally recognized Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone tribe
People
- Poito, also known as Chief WinnemuccaChief WinnemuccaWinnemucca, , was born a Shoshoni around 1820 in what would later become the Oregon Territory. He married a Kuyuidika woman, the daughter of Old Winnemucca, and thus was a Paiute himself by tribal rules...
, a chief of the Northern PaiutePaiutePaiute refers to three closely related groups of Native Americans — the Northern Paiute of California, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon; the Owens Valley Paiute of California and Nevada; and the Southern Paiute of Arizona, southeastern California and Nevada, and Utah.-Origin of name:The origin of... - Numaga, also known as Young Winnemucca, a war chief of the Northern Paiute and Poito's nephew
- Natchez, also known as Little Winnemucca, a chief of the Northern Paiute and Poito's son
- Other members of Poito's family, such as Sarah WinnemuccaSarah WinnemuccaSarah Winnemucca was a prominent female Native American activist and educator, and an influential figure in the United States' nineteenth-century Indian policies...
, who used Winnemucca as their surname.