@article{e927dd128bbe4f4b82aaa55b817738ec,
title = "Landscape Is Alive: Nuwuvi Pilgrimage and Power Places in Nevada",
abstract = "Cultural landscapes are defined at Creation, according to the beliefs of the Nuwuvi (Paiute) and Newe (Shoshone peoples). After Creation, the Native people came to understand the purpose of living landscapes and special places within them. During this time, some places that were designated as essential parts of landscapes at Creation had been inscribed by Native people with peckings and paintings and honored with offerings. Special spiritual places within the landscape were networked like the pearls on a string to produce the foundation of pilgrimage trails. This is an analysis of one such valley landscape in southern Nevada, USA and a pilgrimage trail extending between the Pahranagat Valley and the Corn Creek oasis at the foot of the Paiute Origin place called Nuvagantu (Spring Mountains). Tribal representatives from 18 consulting tribes participated in a special environmental impact assessment to explain this landscape, its components, and potential impacts that could derive from it being removed from a wildlife refuge to become a part of a military land and air use area.",
keywords = "Southern Paiute, Western Shoshone, cultural heritage, environmental impact assessment, great basin pilgrimage trails, living cultural landscapes",
author = "Richard Stoffle and Richard Arnold and {Van Vlack}, Kathleen",
note = "Funding Information: The study was co-produced by a UofA School of Anthropology research team headed by Richard Stoffle and the members of the Writers Committee of the Consolidated Groups of Tribes and Organizations including Richard Arnold, Kenny Anderson, Charlie Bulletts, Maurice Churchill, Barbara Durham, Ronald Escobar, Danelle Gutierrez, Linda Otero, and Sean Scruggs. Official recognition of the CGTO comes from the 18 tribal governments who are formally consulting with the U.S. Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada Test and Training Range in Southern Nevada. Funding for this and all other CGTO activities comes from the U.S. Air Force. Earlier studies that have been used for tiering in this analysis included members of the Department of Energy, Nevada Test Site, American Indian Transportation Committee: Richard Arnold, Pahrump Paiute Tribe, Elliot Booth, Colorado River Indian Tribes, Don Cloquet, Las Vegas Indian Center, Betty Cornelius, Colorado River Indian Tribes, Larry Eddy, Colorado River Indian Tribes, Maurice Frank, Yomba Shoshone Tribe, Milton Hooper, Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Ted Howard, Shoshone-Paiute Tribe of the Duck Valley Reservation, Calvin Meyers, Moapa Paiute Indian Tribe and Gaylene Moose, Big Pine Paiute Tribe. Funds for their environmental assessment work were provided by the U.S. Department of Energy. Guidance and support for the LEIS ethnographic study was provided by Diane Austin, Chair of the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. The research team included UofA students Christopher Sittler, Christopher Mintie Johnson, Mariah Albertie, Cameron Kays, and Grace Penry, and Daniel Velasco. Special thanks to Noah Pleshet, Visiting Associate in the SofA, who facilitated the last field session in December 2018. Funding Information: Faculty salaries were used to support the writing of this paper. No outside funds were provided for the writing of this paper. Funding for the Native American environmental impact assessment was provided by the Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air Force Base for the purpose of conducting a Native American Ethnographic Study for the Legislative Environmental Impact Statement related to proposed land expansions for the NTTR. Those funds were received by the University of Arizona: Contract Number: W912G-14-D-0014; Task Order/Deliverable: DS01 (P010176981); Far Western Job Number: 2007; FRS Account Number: 4021230; The research account was managed by the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona after being received by the Arizona Board of Regents. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors.",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
doi = "10.3390/land11081208",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "11",
journal = "Land",
issn = "2073-445X",
publisher = "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)",
number = "8",
}