Southern Paiute people

My name is Melissa, Melissa Spence.

I'm from the Ojibwe Nation, and I'm coming to you from Las Vegas, otherwise known as Nuwuvi, Southern Paiute lands.

It is super gorgeous today.

We got a little bit of, um, some rain happening in the desert, but I'm super excited to be here because, uh, it feels like it's been another month, but it's only been, I think, a couple of weeks with Sutha here.

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We record this show on the traditional homelands of the Nu'uvi, the Southern Paiute people.

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But that homeland was already occupied.

Southern Paiute, Northern Paiute, Ute, Goshute, Shoshone, and other native people were living across the region long before Mormonism.

Mormon migration took water, forage, hunting grounds, and farmland.

By 1857, conflict with the U.S. government had intensified.

Cursed.

The Boundaries gave their land rights, as we said, to Mormons.

Southern Paiute people were already there, living across what became Southern Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California.

They moved seasonally.

Our ad music is by Sven Lindvall and Sarah from Epidemic Sounds via Getty Images.

We record this show on the traditional homelands of the Nu'uvi, the Southern Paiute people.

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