Wuzzie George

Wuzzie Dick George ( – December 20, 1984) was a Northern Paiute craftsperson who worked to preserve the traditional lifeways and tribal customs of her people. She served as a key collaborator in anthropologist's Margaret Wheat's efforts to record Northern Paiute lifeways.

Early life Wuzzie Dick George was born circa 1880–1883 and given the name Wiziʔi, "Small Animal," which became Wuzzie in English. She was the daughter of Sam and Suzie Dick, of the Toi Dicutta, "Cattail-Eater" band of Northern Paiute from western Nevada. The Northern Paiutes once led a nomadic lifestyle, and she was born during a pine-nut gathering expedition in the Stillwater Mountain Range, but she spent the majority of her life in what are now known as Fallon and Stillwater, Nevada.

When she was a girl, her grandparents Stovepipe and Mattie were major influences; her grandmother especially passed on the tribal customs and traditional stories that George would later work to preserve.

As a young woman, she met and married Jimmy George, with whom she had eight children, five of whom survived to adulthood. George traveled with Wheat to give presentations and demonstrations, including building a cattail house at the Idaho State Museum. Her work is also held by the National Museum of the American Indian.