The Paiutes, or Piutes (pronounced PIE-oot), included many different bands, spread out over a vast region. They are recognized as some of the North American Indian tribes. They are usually organized into two groups for study: the Northern Paiutes and the Southern Paiutes. The northern branch occupied territory that is now northwestern Nevada, southeastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho, and northeastern California. The southern branch lived in territory now part of western Utah, southern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and southeastern California.
The Northern and Southern Paiutes spoke varying dialects of the Uto-Aztecan language family, related to the Shoshone dialect. The name Paiute is thought to mean “true Ute” or “Water Ute,” also indicating and ancestral relationship with the Ute Indians of Utah. The Paiute, are one of the best-known peoples of the Intermountain Great Basin area.
Some Paiutes were nomadic, moving from place to place in search of game and wild plant foods. For the Paiute bands, their activities and whereabouts in the course of a year were dictated by the availability of food. They traveled a great deal, constructing temporary huts of brush and reeds strewn over willow poles, known as wickiups, which
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The Indians collected them from pinon trees growing on the hills and plateaus rising above the Great Basin. Addresses problems of intercultural communication. The Paiutes, along with other Great Basin tribes, have been called Digger Indians by whites because they dug for many of their foods. The first plant food available in the springtime was the cattail growing in marsh ponds. Other wild plant foods--roots and greens--soon followed. In English, for example, if someone says “Sam met John coming out of his house,” the listener does not know who was coming or whose house was involved, because English lacks switch reference. Year-round, Paiutes ate whatever else they could forage, such as lizards, grubs, and insects. Chief Buffalo Horn, Chief Egan, a medicine man Oytes, Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson), and Tavibo.
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The Ghost Dance religion spread to tribes all over the West, especially Arapahos, Shoshones, and Sioux. A balanced account of the relationships between European settlers and native Americans.
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Utley, Robert Marshall.
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