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Pai·ute also Pi·ute P0017400 (pī′yo͞ot′)n. pl. Paiute or Pai·utes also Piute or Pi·utes 1. A member of a Native American people inhabiting eastern Oregon, western Nevada, and adjacent areas of northeast California. Also called Northern Paiute.2. A member of a Native American people inhabiting southern Utah and Nevada, northern Arizona, and adjacent areas of southeast California. Also called Southern Paiute. Pai′ute′ adj.Paiute (ˈpaɪˌuːt; paɪˈjuːt) or Piutenpl -utes or -ute1. (Peoples) a member of either of two North American Indian peoples (Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute) of the Southwestern US, related to the Aztecs2. (Languages) the language of either of these peoples, belonging to the Shoshonean subfamily of the Uto-Aztecan familyPai•ute (paɪˈut, ˈpaɪ ut) n., pl. -utes, (esp. collectively) -ute. 1. a member of an American Indian people of the U.S. Great Basin region. 2. either of two Uto-Aztecan languages spoken by the Paiutes. ThesaurusNoun | 1. | Paiute - a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United StatesPiuteShoshone, Shoshoni - a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States | | 2. | Paiute - the Shoshonean language spoken by the PaiuteShoshonean, Shoshonean language, Shoshonian, Shoshonian language - a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States |
PaiuteenUK
Paiute (pīo͞ot`), two distinct groups of Native North Americans speaking languages belonging to the Shoshonean group of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. ). The Northern Paiute ranged over central and E California, W Nevada, and E Oregon. The Southern Paiute occupied NW Arizona, SE California, S Nevada, and S Utah. The Northern Paiute were more warlike than their southern relatives; they fought the miners and the settlers during the 1860s, and a considerable part of them joined the Bannock in the war of 1878. The Southern Paiute are often called the Diggers because they subsisted on root digging. In general the Paiute of the Great Basin area subsisted by hunting, fishing, and digging for roots. They lived in small round huts (wickiups) that were covered with tule rushes. It was among the Paiute that the Ghost DanceGhost Dance, central ritual of the messianic religion instituted in the late 19th cent. by a Paiute named Wovoka. The religion prophesied the peaceful end of the westward expansion of whites and a return of the land to the Native Americans. ..... Click the link for more information. religion, which was to be of much significance on the frontier in the 1890s, first appeared (c.1870). The Native American prophet WovokaWovoka , c.1858–1932, Paiute, prophet of a messianic religion sometimes called the Ghost Dance religion. Also known as Jack Wilson, he was influenced by his father (a mystic) as well as by the Christian family for whom he worked and the Shaker religion. ..... Click the link for more information. was a Paiute. In 1990 there were over 11,000 Paiute in the United States, many of them living on tribal lands in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah. The name is also spelled Piute. Bibliography See J. H. Steward, Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute (1933); O. C. Stewart, Northern Paiute Bands (1939); M. M. Wheat, Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes (1967). PaiuteenUK Related to Paiute: Northern PaiuteSynonyms for Paiutenoun a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United StatesSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun the Shoshonean language spoken by the PaiuteRelated Words- Shoshonean
- Shoshonean language
- Shoshonian
- Shoshonian language
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