The Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Lone Pine Community of the Lone Pine Reservation ( Timbisha (Shoshone) language: ''Noompai'' ) is a

federally recognized tribe This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States of America. There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes. , 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United ...

Mono Mono may refer to: Common meanings * Infectious mononucleosis, "the kissing disease" * Monaural, monophonic sound reproduction, often shortened to mono * Mono-, a numerical prefix representing anything single Music Performers * Mono (Japanese b ...

and

Timbisha The Timbisha ("rock paint", Timbisha language: Nümü Tümpisattsi) are a Native American tribe federally recognized as the Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone Band of California. They are known as the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe and are located in sout ...

Native American Indians near Lone Pine in

Inyo County, California Inyo County () is a county in the eastern central part of the U.S. state of California, located between the Sierra Nevada and the state of Nevada. In the 2020 census, the population was 19,016. The county seat is Independence. Inyo County is ...

. They are related to the

Owens Valley Paiute The Mono ( ) are a Native American people who traditionally live in the central Sierra Nevada, the Eastern Sierra (generally south of Bridgeport), the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin. The Eastern mono is often grouped under th ...

.California Indians and Their Reservations.
''San Diego State University Library and Information Access.'' 2009 (retrieved 8 Dec 2009)

Language

The Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshones traditionally spoke two different languages. The

("Paiutes") spoke the Mono language and the

("Shoshones") spoke the

Timbisha language Timbisha (''Tümpisa'') or Panamint (also called Koso) is the language of the Native American people who have inhabited the region in and around Death Valley, California, and the southern Owens Valley since late prehistoric times. There are a fe ...

, both of which were members of the

Numic Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. It includes seven languages spoken by Native American peoples traditionally living in the Great Basin, Colorado River basin, Snake River basin, and southern Great Plains. The word Numic com ...

subgroup of the

Uto-Aztecan Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztekan or (rarely in English) Uto-Nahuatl is a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The na ...

language family.

Lone Pine Reservation

The Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Lone Pine Community is a federal recognized tribe and reside on the reservation, the Lone Pine Indian Reservation in Inyo County, in central-eastern

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, in the

Owens River Valley Owens Valley (Numic: ''Payahǖǖnadǖ'', meaning "place of flowing water") is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States. It is located to the east of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada, west of the White ...

on the eastern side of the

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. The reservation is large. Approximately 350"Home Page."
''Long Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation.'' (retrieved 8 Dec 2009) of the 1400 enrolled tribal members live on the reservation. The reservation was established on April 20, 1939 through a land exchange negotiated between the

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and the

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. In 1990-1, 168 out of 296 enrolled members lived on reservation.Pritzker, 229 As of the 2010 Census the population was 212.
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Government

The tribe is governed by a five-person tribal council, who are as follows: :* Melvin R. Joseph - Chairperson :* Mary Wuester - Vice chairperson :* Stacey Mike - Secretary :* Janet Hansen - Treasurer :* Beverly Newell - TrusteeRaglin, Justin
"Contact Us."
''Long Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation.'' 13 May 2010. Retrieved 1 Aug 2012. The Lone Pine Indian Community is headquartered in

Lone Pine, California Lone Pine is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. Lone Pine is located south-southeast of Independence, at an elevation of . The population was 2,035 at the 2010 census, up from 1,655 at the 2000 census. T ...

. They have their own public works department, environmental department, and tribal administration.

Education

The reservation is served by the

Lone Pine Unified School District Lone Pine Unified School District, commonly abbreviated LPUSD, is located in Inyo County, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nea ...

Notes

References

* Pritzker, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. .

External links

Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation
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Northern Paiute Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a r ...

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