paiute in English

noun
1
a member of either of two culturally similar but geographically separate and linguistically distinct American Indian peoples, the Southern Paiute of the southwestern US and the Northern Paiute of Oregon and Nevada.
The Winnemucca family consistently urged Paiutes toward accommodation of non-Indians and selective acculturation.
2
either of the Uto-Aztecan languages of the Paiute.
When she moved away, she missed her family, missed the open space, missed hearing Paiute - ‘our language,’ she says.
adjective
1
relating to the Paiute or their languages.
And who knows how many words of Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, or Paiute origin have become part of the Navajo language?

Use "paiute" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "paiute" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "paiute", or refer to the context using the word "paiute" in the English Dictionary.

1. Near Mono Lake, they took refuge with the nearby Mono tribe of Paiute.

2. The Bannock Indians are a Shoshonean tribe who long lived in the Great Basin in what is now southeastern Oregon and Southern Idaho.Calling themselves the Panati, they speak the Northern Paiute Language and are closely related to the Northern Paiute people, so much so, that some anthropologists consider the Bannock to be simply one of the northern-most bands of the Northern Paiute.

3. Basketmaker II houses were somewhat more sturdy than those of their Archaic predecessors, being rather like a Paiute winter wickiup or a Navajo hogan

4. He was a partially Acculturated Paviotso (Northern Paiute) Indian who had worked enough as a ranch hand to get a superficial understanding of European American culture