Paiute

[ US /ˈpaɪjut/ ]
NOUN
  1. the Shoshonean language spoken by the Paiute
  2. a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States
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How To Use Paiute In A Sentence

  • We had for-real cowboys, Basque sheepherders, hardrock miners, Shoshoni and Paiute Indians, wild-game hunters from all over the world, various and sundry railroad workers, and tourists passing through on U.S. 40, the main highway bisecting the nation at that time. Beard
  • The Paiute Indians thought that these hoodoos were humanlike creatures turned to stone by an angry coyote god.
  • The Paiute deadfall uses a piece of cordage and a catch stick.
  • You speak of Paiute legends, in fact most of the tribal indigenous recognized what they termed 'Star Nation'.
  • The diminutive suffix is often used in Ute and Paiute to indicate youth or affection.
  • If you don't know where that is, this Paiute Clan man here does. A THIEF OF TIME
  • Question to Metatron: There are Native American stories from the Paiute Tribe and a report from a physician in the 1940's of underground cities in this general area.
  • But before that the Paiutes, mesne lords of the soil, made a campoodie by the rill of Pine Creek; and after, contesting the soil with them, cattle-men, who found its foodful pastures greatly to their advantage; and bands of blethering flocks shepherded by wild, hairy men of little speech, who attested their rights to the feeding ground with their long staves upon each other's skulls. The Land of Little Rain
  • However, some theories have suggested that Southern California was the original home of the first Uto-Aztecans and that the Paiute and Shoshone diverged from the main group by migrating eastward into the Great Basin. Are you related to the Aztecs?
  • He was dressed in traditional Paiute clothing, complete with moccasins, and his hair was kept back from his forehead with a leather thong.
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