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and say that they speak the same language. As a rule they have been 

 peaceable and friendly toward the whites, although in the early sixties 

 they several times came into collision with miners and emigrants, 

 hostility being frequently provoked by the whites themselves. The 



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northern Paiute are more warlike than those of the south, and a con- 

 siderable number of them took part with the Bannock in the war of 

 1878. Owing to the fact that the great majority of the Paiute are not 

 on reservations, many of them being attached to the ranches of white 

 men, it is impossible to get any correct statement of their population, 



