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Paiute   /pˈaɪjut/   Listen
Paiute

noun
1.
A member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States.  Synonym: Piute.
2.
The Shoshonean language spoken by the Paiute.





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"Paiute" Quotes from Famous Books



... desert-dweller who preached a desert-wisdom to a confused world. Her play The Arrow Maker exhibits the behavior and fortunes of a desert-seeress among her own people. Love and the Soul-Maker anatomizes love as a primal force struggling with and through civilization. From Paiute and Shoshone medicine men, the only poets Mrs. Austin knew during her formative years, she acquired that grounding in basic rhythms which led her to write free verse years before it became the fashion in sophisticated circles and persuaded her that American poetry cannot afford to overlook ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren


Words linked to "Paiute" :   Shoshoni, Shoshonean language, Shoshonean, Shoshonian language, Shoshone, Shoshonian


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