- a variation of Paiute.
Piute
Americannoun
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Piutes,
plural
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Piute
plural
noun
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Heber Jeffs was arrested by federal agents on Saturday after he was tracked to the town of Minot, but authorities don’t know why he was there, said Sheriff Marty Gleave of Piute County, Utah.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
The closest the senator says he ever got to Disneyland was Piute Springs, desert lands across the California border, with an old fort, volcanic rock and natural springs that were “like a miracle.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2016
As a child, Reid fell in love with Piute Springs, the site of an old cavalry fort in California that he remembers as a place with lily pads and gushing water.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2015
To the north across Piute Canyon, we had a good view of Mount Emerson’s gray serrated south face, and the red Piute Crags that extend eastward from it.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2014
Casey did not know the Piute customs well enough to follow them, and his version of the white man's funeral service was simple in the extreme.
From Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower
Good-by," as Imogen rose to go; "I hope we shall meet again some time, and then you will tell me how you like Colorado, and the Piutes, and—waffles.
From In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Susan Coolidge
The Piutes account for the disappearance of the stars in the daytime by the hypothesis that the "sun swallows his children".
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
His face and hands were dirty, and his hair hung around his ears and neck and eyes in that fine disorder which the Piutes admire.
From Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Florence Finch Kelly
His father-in-law had been friendly with the Navajos and Piutes for many years, and his wife had been brought up among them.
From The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey
"Piutes with Creech!" exclaimed Bostil, the deep gloom in his eyes lighting.
From Wildfire by Zane Grey
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