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What is a Paiute?

What is a Paiute? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anthropology) Any member of two related groups of North American aboriginal peoples: the Northern Paiute of California, Nevada, and Oregon, and the Southern Paiute of Arizona, southeastern California and Nevada, and Utah.
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He was dressed in traditional Paiute clothing, complete with moccasins, and his hair was kept back from his forehead with a leather thong.
Southern Paiute men and women reportedly wore twined-bark leggings and Northern Paiute men wore simple buckskin shirts.
The diminutive suffix is often used in Ute and Paiute to indicate youth or affection.
The Paiute Indians thought that these hoodoos were humanlike creatures turned to stone by an angry coyote god.
Many other Paiute groups have actively taken steps to preserve their language.
He laid the two Paiute children to rest, in a plastic garbage sack, next to the strawberry patch.

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