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dc.contributor.authorStoffle, Richard W.
dc.contributor.authorChmara-Huff, Fletcher
dc.contributor.authorVan Vlack, Kathleen
dc.contributor.authorToupal, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-05T00:22:30Z
dc.date.available2013-03-05T00:22:30Z
dc.date.issued2004-02
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/271073
dc.descriptionTo the Southern Paiutes, the Spring Mountains are the center of Creation. They believe that they, as a people, were created in these mountains at the beginning of time. Southern Paiutes believe that the Spring Mountains constitute a living being that has a zoomorphic shape. This being has a head which is found at the northern end of the range at Mount Sterling, a tail located at Mount Potosi, and in the center at Mount Charleston, a womb which created life. Mount Charleston is the geographic and cultural center of the Spring Mountains. The Spring Mountains are located within the traditional Pahrump and Las Vegas districts of the Southern Paiute Nation. The mountains, today, serve as a boundary between the cities of Las Vegas and Pahrump, Nevada. In 2003, the United States Forest Service (USFS) funded an applied ethnographic study that focused on a cultural landscape assessment of the Spring Mountain National Recreation Area, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The project examined the traditional, religious, and cultural values of Southern Paiute people inherent in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada. The study design required that Richard Stoffle and his research team from the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology work with tribal representatives to prepare a map through a rapid assessment to identify sites, areas, and landscapes that are of cultural and religious importance to the Southern Paiute people. The second task was to provide the USFS with an overview essay summarizing the ethnographic archival field notes and literature relevant to Southern Paiute cultural values of the Spring Mountains. The third task required field visits and interviews with tribal members that focused on the overall cultural importance of the Spring Mountains and individual places visited throughout the mountain range. This work served as the ethnographic core of the overall report and the basis for USFS management decisions and tribal consultation.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherBureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizonaen_US
dc.sourceUniversity of Arizona Libraries, Special Collectionsen_US
dc.subjectSouthern Paiutesen_US
dc.subjectCultural Landscapesen_US
dc.subjectNevadaen_US
dc.subjectSacred Sitesen_US
dc.titlePuha Flows from It: The Cultural Landscape Study of the Spring Mountainsen_US
dc.typeReporten_US
dc.contributor.departmentBureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizonaen_US
dc.description.collectioninformationThis item is part of the Richard Stoffle Collection. It was digitized from a physical copy provided by Richard Stoffle, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please email Special Collections, askspecialcollections@u.library.arizona.edu.en_US
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