Paiute
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Paiutes,
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Paiute
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a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
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either of two mutually unintelligible Uto-Aztecan languages Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute.
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a member of either of two North American Indian peoples ( Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute ) of the Southwestern US, related to the Aztecs
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the language of either of these peoples, belonging to the Shoshonean subfamily of the Uto-Aztecan family
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“Here we are as Indigenous peoples doing what we do best, and that’s take care of ours,” said Rana Saulque, vice chair of the Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe, tearing up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
South of the town of Big Pine, Noah Williams, Red Owl’s son and a member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe, walked through dry brush to a low-lying stretch of desert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025
Thomas River Watterson, a member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe, looks out over South Lake, in the headwaters of Bishop Creek in the Sierra Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025
It also was approved this week by the San Juan Southern Paiute and Hopi tribes.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
Yahandika was variously reported by Fort Hall informants as referring to a district in Nevada; by others as applied to certain Oregon Northern Paiute.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy
Some Indians opposed to the mine say it will disturb sacred ground where a massacre of Paiutes took place in 1865.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
I also spoke to a member of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, a neighboring tribe, who do not count Avi Kwa Ame as their origin site, but still recognize its deep cultural relevance.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
In a city saturated with gambling, where even laundromats and grocery stores have slot machines, the Las Vegas Paiutes never saw the casino business as a viable economic driver.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2019
The Paiutes were like, "Well, hey. You know, we're here, but we know you don't mean us."
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2019
In Utah was danger from the Utes and farther westward from the Paiutes, but expeditions went well armed and exercised incessant watchfulness.
From Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by James H. McClintock
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