Towarnehiooks

The Towarnehiooks were a Northern Paiute band known also as the Hunipuitoka or Walpapi, whose country lay around the upper John Day River. Like other Northern Paiute communities, they drew on the resources of the basin and its uplands, hunting game and gathering plant foods. Bands were associated with particular territories, but families could move between them, and neighbours joined together for communal hunts. Their lands formed part of the varied country between the Blue Mountains and the northern Great Basin.