Southern Paiute
Americannoun
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a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in Nevada, California, Utah, and northwestern Arizona.
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Paiute2
Example Sentences
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The Hopi tribe approved the settlement earlier this week, and the San Juan Southern Paiute Council was expected to take up the measure during a meeting Thursday.
From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024
At the same time, Indigenous residents such as the Chemehuevi people — members of the most southern band of the Nuwuvi or Southern Paiute Nation — tended hunting and gathering grounds with fire.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024
His 1969 piece "Double Negative," in which 240,000 tons of rock were blasted from a Nevada mesa, on land that was once home to the Southern Paiute, to create a trench, is foundational.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2022
About 40 percent of the land in the county is occupied by six tribal nations: Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, Hualapai, Kaibab-Paiute and San Juan Southern Paiute.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021
NuWu – which means “the people” in Southern Paiute – sits on the tribe’s “colony” one mile away from the neon-lit Fremont Street Experience.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2019
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