Sinoyat

The Sinoyat are a tribe of Native Americans who lived in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, alongside the Mandots before 1880 when the American government drove them out of their home.

History
Though they had an agreement written on a Wampum Belt, the government refused to honor it and the Sinoyat were forced to move into Mandot territory. They were treated like outcasts by the other tribe, and eventually, Chief Running Wolf, chief of the Sinoyat at the time, rebelled against the US government. This lasted a few years before the government round up the entire tribe and shipped them off to Kansas. They did not like it there since they were mountain people.

Over the next century, most of the tribe had eased into the general population and lived in big cities, though some remained in Kansas and about thirty of them moved to Lone Pine River. Since they could not produce the wampum belt which would prove their rightful ownership of the mountain, they could do nothing when Vista Recreation Incorporated decided to buy it and expand the land. Their guardian spirit, Glooscap and the Spirit Wolf, gave Phoebe Halliwell a premonition to find the belt and stop the demon controlling the company from taking ownership of the tribal lands. With the belt recovered, the Sinoyat are now able to retrieve their landmark.

Notable Members

 * John Hawk
 * Ben Waters