Owens Valley Career Development Center

Inyo-Mono Counties

Pauite & Northern Pauite

We offers a variety of opportunities to learn from pre-school to family based settings. We encourage learning through cultural experiences such as basket weaving, music, dancing, California history, traditional stories, and songs. Preserving and Revitalizing Our Native Languages through self-identities for our TANF clients and communities with Culture component and Culture Identity.

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Service Area
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Inyo County

Bishop, Big Pine, Lone Pine,
Bridgeport & Benton

Language Served:
Paiute & Northern Paiute

Occupied
Inyo County Coordinator:
432 Barlow Ln.
Bishop, CA 93514
(760)872-3604 ext. 228

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Inyo County Language

Calendar

Paiute Language Instructors

Jamie Meredith

Teaches Bishop Language
20 years of teaching including contracting Lifelong pursuit,
but more actively in classes since late 1980’s so approximately 37yrs.

Lavina Banning

I teach Nuumu
I been teaching for about 12+ years
I been learning for a little over 14 years

Glenn Nelson Jr

Teaches Owens Valley Paiute or Eastern Mono.
I’ve been teaching for about 12+ years and I’ve been learning for a little over 14 years.

Joseph Lent

Numu, which has been reclassified as Northern Paiute. I teach Numu-dadooanna, which is Northern Paiute language.
I have been learning the language off and on throughout my life for the past 28 years; this includes speaking it
I have been teaching with OVCDC for 3 years but have been teaching throughout my life, from time to time here and there for 24 years.

For more information contact Inyo County at
(760) 872-3604

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