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The '''Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony''' is a [[federally recognized tribes|federally recognized tribe]] of [[Northern Paiute]] Indians in [[Pershing County, Nevada]].<ref name=p226>Pritzker, 226</ref>
==Reservation==
[[File:2015R Lovelock Indian Colony Locator Map.svg|thumb|Location of the Lovelock Indian Colony]]
The Lovelock Paiute Tribe has a federal reservation, the Lovelock Indian Colony, at {{coord|40|10|26|N|118|29|00|W}} in Pershing County. The reservation was established in 1907 and is {{convert|20|acre|m2}}. In 1990 80 tribal members lived on the reservation. In 1992, 110 people were enrolled in the tribe.<ref name=p226/>
The tribe's headquarters is located in [[Lovelock, Nevada]]. Sandra Winap is the tribal chairperson of a five-person tribal council.<ref>[http://www.lovelockpaiutetribe.com/Government.html Lovelock Paiute Tribe Government]</ref> There is also a tribal police force consisting of one police chief and two officers.<ref>[http://www.lovelockpaiutetribe.com/TribalLawEnforcement.html Tribal website]</ref>
==Tribal history==
Different bands of Northern Paiutes took the name of their principal food and those living in the area of present-day Lovelock called themselves Koop Ticutta, [[ground squirrel]] eaters. Other meats included [[jackrabbits]], [[groundhog]]s, ducks, geese and fish. There were also plenty of wild vegetables and fruits to gather such as choke berries, [[pine nuts]], wild onions, [[sweet potatoes]], [[tule]] shoots and cane.<ref>Mary Dave's memories on the [http://www.lovelockpaiutetribe.com/History.html Lovelock Paiute Tribe website]</ref>
Mary Dave (born 1881) remembered being given bread and jam by the friendly founder of the town, George Lovelock, and also attending the school run by [[Sarah Winnemucca]] between 1885 and 1888.<ref>Sally Zanjani, ''Sarah Winnemmucca'', University of  Nebraska 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=qazH0LPNOvIC&dq=lovelock+paiute+school&pg=PA265 pp.265-83]</ref> In 1891 the tribe executed the last suspected witch in the US, a [[Shoshone]] medicine woman named Winnescheika.<ref>News 4 Nevada [http://news4nevada.com/Content/PERSHING-COUNTY-NEWS-/NEWS-Pershing-County/Article/Last-suspected-witch-in-US-Winnescheika-executed-in-Lovelock-in-1891/30/161/24841 8 October 2015]</ref>
Soon after the reservation was established, another Indian school was created, of which there were photographs taken in 1911<ref>[http://www.icollector.com/Real-photo-post-card-of-the-Indian-school-in-Lovelock-Nevada_i20813552 I-collector]</ref> and 1920.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141108024857/http://blog.theautry.org/2014/09/the-cante-sica-foundation-and-the-preservation-of-indian-boarding-school-histories/ The Autry Collection]</ref> During the 1920s ethnographer [[Mark Raymond Harrington]] photographed tribal people in the area.<ref>[http://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=T78501;type=701 The Autry Collection]</ref>
==Notable Lovelock Paiute==
* [[Adrian C. Louis]], author and educator
==Notes==
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==References==
* Pritzker, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-19-513877-1}}.
==External links==
* [http://thorpe.ou.edu/IRA/ftbidcons.html Fort Bidwell Indian Community Constitution and By-Laws]
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[[Category:Northern Paiute]]
[[Category:American Indian reservations in Nevada]]
[[Category:Geography of Pershing County, Nevada]]
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[[Category:Federally recognized tribes in the United States]]