Welcome to Numu-Know! This name has a double meaning. First, it expresses my desire for our people to know our Numu Yadooana (Northern Paiute Language). My hope is that this website will be helpful for learning and therefore knowing Numu. Second, in Numu, the phrase ‘numu-no’ can mean “with the people.” My desire is that we, as individuals, will endeavor to learn “with the people.” I hope we become united as Numu to preserve and revitalize our language. This cannot be done alone. We must do this numu-no: with the people.

This website mostly contains traditional stories as shared by various people from different Numu communities. Traditionally, our stories were told orally; we learned by hearing them, since we had no written orthography. One day, I hope to have audio for all or most of the stories. Until then, I have a couple stories with an audio recording uploaded to them. Hopefully more audio will be added soon!

I have translated each story myself, unless otherwise noted. I gratefully welcome any corrections you may find! You can email me at numu.linguist@gmail.com.

Be sure to click on every Numu word to see more details about the meaning of each word. A little window will pop up that will show the words morphology (the word broken down into parts/affixes), the general sense (or “gloss”) of each word/affix, and notes providing a bit more of an explanation regarding the meaning.

I now also I have a “Learn” section that links you to my YouTube and TikTok videos as well.

This website is a work in progress. I will be uploading more stories as I am able to. If you have any stories you would like me to upload, please send them to my email.