How to Use Paiute in a Sentence

Paiute

noun
  • Abish is not among the dead and a Paiute survivor tells them that Wolf Clan left with a woman.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There is the Paiute tribe, which has a different outlook on the colonizers than the Shoshone.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The local Paiute Tribe then collected the body for a Native burial.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The militiamen hire Paiutes and make the attack look like the work of Native Americans.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Benn, a substance abuse counselor and member of the Paiute Tribe, was killed at her Cedar City home in 1998.
    — Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The Mormons covered up their involvement for decades, blaming the Paiute Indians.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Her film centers on Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Indigenous athlete who grew up on a Paiute reservation in Nevada.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Then a Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal ranger, shouting obscenities, rammed his truck into the blockade and the protesters were arrested.
    — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes have grown accustomed to being an afterthought to companies mining for precious metals in their ancestral homelands.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The Cottonwood Fire in Utah's Paiute and Beaver counties had spread to about 92,254 acres with 0% containment.
    — Tristan Maglunog, ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • Lore has it that Little Mouse was a Southern Paiute outlaw who hid from authorities within these winding walls, surviving off rainwater in natural basins, or tanks.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • By day, visitors can hike, cycle, and view ancient petroglyphs left behind by the area's Indigenous Northern Paiute people, before spending the night gazing up at the twinkling canopy.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Yosemite Museum, open year-round, showcases the culture of the park’s Indigenous inhabitants, including the Miwok and Paiute people.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2025
  • That quake, called the Parker Butte Earthquake, was located in a desert area on the Walker River Paiute Indian Reservation.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Based on that research, Coleman released an online Owens Valley Paiute dictionary, sentence builder and translator and hopes to continue building more advanced language-learning tools.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Four young Paiute Indians from Utah, who had come west with a wagon train, became involved in a tit-for-tat skirmish with some local cowboys that resulted in several deaths and, according to local historians, the Piutes burning a sawmill.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Visit the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center right in Bishop to learn more about Indigenous life in the region, or drive 19 miles to Lake Sabrina for hiking and kayaking adventures.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2026
  • Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute leaders met with the Bureau of Reclamation and the Interior Department during the Navajo Nation Fair, Yellowhair said.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Surrounded by Inyo National Forest, Bishop has an impressive selection of restaurants and cozy stays within city limits, in addition to attractions like Keough’s Hot Springs, the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center, and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Weekly episodes will move The Indigenous Setlist forward with conversations featuring country reggae artist Maoli of the Native Hawaiian community, punk rock band Dead Pioneers of Pyramid Lake Paiute, alt-rock and soul artist Aysanabee of the Sandy Lake First Nation (Oji-Cree), and more.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026
  • Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley and San Juan Southern Paiute President Carlene Yellowhair said the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, originally introduced in 2024, had been stalled in Congress.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2025

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