- a variation of Paiute.
Piute
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Piutes,
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Piute
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noun
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Piute County Commissioner Darin Bushman says they have been working on getting the signs out on the road since they began a restoration project on Cassidy’s cabin.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
Investigators said they believe Ashley probably hiked over the Piute Mountains, possibly using the Pacific Crest Trail, to get to Weldon, 10 miles away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2015
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
And across Piute Canyon from it there stands another big peak, unnamed.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2014
Johnson Sides is a well-known Piute who had the pleasure of meeting me at Reno.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
These works were held by no less than one hundred and twenty Shoshones belonging to the Piutes, Pitt Rivers, Modocs and Snakes.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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
However, we pass safely through the land of the Piutes, unmolested by Buffalo James.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 4: To California and Return by Artemus Ward
"Bostil, I 'most forgot," went on Brackton, "Cordts sent word by the Piutes who come to-day thet he'd be here sure."
From Wildfire by Zane Grey
In 1877 he led the expedition against the Nez Perces Indians and in 1878 against the Bannocks and Piutes.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
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