Cultural Teachings

Paiute Cutural Teachings
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Our Songs & Teachings

The songs and stories offered on this page represent an important part of the Paiute culture. Without our stories and songs our culture would cease to be.

The Walker River Paiute Tribes', Department of Cutural Affairs is working hard to revitalize our language and culture. Through the the Agai Dicutta Yaduan Program we are teaching our children the language and cultural knowledge.

Traditional Paiute Songs -
Songs sung during the 2004 Pine Nut Festival in Schurz, Nevada
To acces the songs press the Songs tab on player. A small panel will open with twelve tracks displayed. Only the first three tracks have songs loaded onto them. As we collect more songs and this site grows we will post additional songs.

We have selected three traditional songs to broadcast through our Native Stream MP3 player

Track 1 - Description of song here.

Track 2 - Description of song here.

Track 3 - Florentino "George" Moose, Agai Dicutta Elder.
the song is "Haga Ya Keema"

You will need Macromedia Flash Player to access the songs through this player. If you do not see the player you will need to download the Flash Player by going to this site. Macromedia Flash Player
Thank you for visiting Paiutelanguage.org we hope you enjoy the songs offered here.
Agai Dicutta Yaduan Program

Paiute Students
Traditional Teachings

Below we have selected images that show how we are preserving and revitalizing our way of life by teaching our children.

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The above images were taken while students learned to construct a cattail house using traditional methods.

This set of images show students working on preparing buffalo hides for tanning.

Many of the activities, in the course of teaching the language, includes having the students spending time learning about the Earth.

The above images were taken during an Agai Dicutta Motusopa (Elders) Journey to Warm Springs, Oregon where our relatives the Agai Paneena treated the elders to a mini pow-wow and traditional feast.