This Year the Birds Fly North: An Historical Story of Medicine Man Oytes and the Forced Removal of the Northern Paiute to Yakima
| dc.contributor.author | Dier, Dean | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-24T17:36:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-24T17:36:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | 17 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Through a multi-character narrative approach, this paper tells of several specific struggles for cultural retention, leadership, and survival along the Northern Paiute’s “trail of tears” from the Malheur reservation to the Yakima reservation in 1879, following the end of the Bannock War. This narrative style and the use of multiple, individual histories all speaking to the same swath of time in 1879, challenges the current way history is often read and acknowledged. Voice is given to oral stories, life is given to family histories, and the reader feels the tangible humanity of day-to-day existence during a shared trauma in society. I mainly utilize primary source materials including oral histories, memoirs, letters, newspaper articles, and interviews about Paiute language and culture with tribal elder and Oytes descendant Myra Johnson Orange. I also incorporate multiple secondary sources, including the work of visiting scholar James Gardener, and multiple articles written about the Bannock War, Sarah Winnemucca, the medicine man Oytes, Northern Paiute spirituality, and the march to Yakima. This paper contributes to the recorded history of the Northern Paiute, especially regarding Oytes, who is rarely portrayed as the powerful spiritual leader his descendants know him to be. This paper also contributes an alternative historical experience, giving equal weight to oral histories, personal recorded histories, and scholarly works. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dier, D. (2015). This Year the Birds Fly North: An Historical Story of Medicine Man Oytes and the Forced Removal of the Northern Paiute to Yakima. Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal, 8(1). doi:10.5399/uo/ourj.8.1.6 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dier, D. (2015). This Year the Birds Fly North: An Historical Story of Medicine Man Oytes and the Forced Removal of the Northern Paiute to Yakima. Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal, 8(1). doi:10.5399/uo/ourj.8.1.6 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5399/uo/ourj.8.1.6 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2160-617X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23445 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Northern Paiute | en_US |
| dc.subject | Medicine Man Oytes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Historical ficiton | en_US |
| dc.subject | Malheur Reservation | en_US |
| dc.title | This Year the Birds Fly North: An Historical Story of Medicine Man Oytes and the Forced Removal of the Northern Paiute to Yakima | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |