Paiute

Or Pi·ute

[pahy-oot, pahy-oot]

noun

plural

Paiutes ,

plural

Paiute .

1. a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.

2. either of two mutually unintelligible Uto-Aztecan languages Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute.

Paiute

/ ˈpaɪˌuːt, paɪˈjuːt /

noun

1. a member of either of two North American Indian peoples ( Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute ) of the Southwestern US, related to the Aztecs

2. the language of either of these peoples, belonging to the Shoshonean subfamily of the Uto-Aztecan family

Example Sentences

Once it had so many springs, streams and wetlands that the Paiute and Shoshone people called their homeland Payahuunadü, “the land of flowing water.”

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Saulque, vice chairwoman for the Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute tribe, draws a parallel between ousting the horses and the historic persecution of her people by the government.

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Another focus is the history of Indigenous people, the Paiute and Shoshone, who decades before L.A.’s water grab saw their ancestral lands taken and occupied by white settlers.

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It also was approved this week by the San Juan Southern Paiute and Hopi tribes.

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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.

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