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THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION 



[ETH. ams. 14 



PAIUTE GLOSSARY 



Agai'h-ttka'ra — "fish eaters;'' the dis- 

 tinctive name of the Paiute of Walker 

 lake, Nevada. 



Bai'-yo — it is broken. 



Jlu wa — going around in a circle 



Ilina — for Ti no. 



Do — black. 



Dombi mi — for Ti'mbi or Tiibi. 



Do'roni — rolling on the ground, wallow- 

 ing. 



Do 1 i/oii or Do'yonji — it is growing tall. 



Ga'yon or Ga'yoni — slender, tall and 

 slender. 



Goai pa — the Milky Way, the road of the 

 dead. See Paiute song 1 



Havi'ginti — it lies there, it lies there 

 asleep; havi'kwd, sleep. 



Hogdpa'goni — "rush-arrow people;" the 

 Shoshoni name for the Taiute; from 

 hogiij), a small water reed ; pdgd, arrow, 

 and nt, the tribal suffix. 



Hutui — the sage-hen (Centrocerciis uro- 

 phaeianns). 



Ibidsi't — "our mother;" the mythic ma- 

 ternal ancestor of the Paiute. 



Jack Wilson — see Wovoka. 



Ka — the root of the verb sit ; ya'nahatU', 

 I am sitting down. 



Kairva — mountain. 



Eosi — for Kosi'ba. 



Kosi'ba — dust. 



Kotso'-tika'ra — "buffalo eaters;" the 

 Paiute name for the Bannock. Com- 

 pare Ko'tso-te'ka, a Comanche division. 



Kura'ngwa — " very high peak ; " applied 

 to Mount Grant, the sacred mountain 

 of the Paiute, west of Hawthorne and 

 near the southwestern end of Walker 

 lake, Nevada. 



Kwohi'tsauq or K'wijau'h — "big rum- 

 bling belly." one of the names assumed 

 by Wovoka the messiah. It was orig- 

 inally the name of his paternal grand- 

 father. 



Nanigii lira — the Paiute name of the 

 Ghost dance. The word signifies the 

 " dance in a circle; " niika, a dance. 



Kuyo'a — to come gliding or creeping ; the 

 verb is applied to the movement of a 

 snake or of an object which progresses 

 without the aid of feet. 



Hoyo'wana — for Noyo'a. 



Niima — "people," or "Indians," the 

 name used to designate themselves by 

 the Paiute, Shoshoni, and Comanche. 



Xiiini'-nad' — "our father;" the mythic 

 ancestor of the Paiute. 



Xiirii — for Xiini l>i. 



Xiini bi — snow. 



Xiiiii'-ri'jx) — snowy earth, snow-covered 

 earth (compound word) ; from niiva'bi, 

 snow, and ri'pa or ti'pd, earth. 



Pagii'nava — fog. 



Paiute or I'iu te — (Pai-yu't) the name by 

 which the Niima of Nevada and the 

 adjacent region are popularly and offi- 

 cially known. It has been rendered as 

 " true (pai) Ute" or " water (j>«) Ute." 

 They themselves pronounce the word 

 in three syllables, Pai-u'-li. 



Pai-yu'chimO — the Hopi name for the 

 Paiute. 



Pai-yu'tsI — the Navaho name for the 

 Paiute. 



Palu — the Washo name for the Paiute. 



I'iisii — for Pasii'bi. 



I'iisii'bi — willow. 



Pavio'tso — the proper tribal name of the 

 Indians of Walker River and Pyramid 

 Lake reservations in Nevada, according 

 to Powell, who considers them distinct 

 from the Paiute. 



I'n i — for I'ii' iga i '-g u . 



I'ii ii/ni-i/ii — verdant, green (applied to 

 growing plants). 



Ito'nuii — an unmeaning word used to fill 

 out the measure of the songs. 



Iio'yon or Ro'yovji — other forms of I to' yon. 



Snake Indians — a name loosely applied 

 to various northern bands or tribes of 

 Shoshonean stock, including Paiute, 

 liannock, Shoshoni, and sometimes even 

 the Comanche. 



Soiei'na — ringing like a bell, roaring. 



SH ng-ii — for Sii 'ng-oli i . 



Sit ng-abi — cotton wood. 



Taivo — the Paiute, Shoshoni, and Co- 

 manche name for a white man. See 

 la ribo. 



Tdkwu'kmj — lightning. 



I'ii ribo — "white man," the father of 

 Wovoka the messiah. The word has 

 a connection with tabi or lavi, the sun; 

 tiirii niiijiriil. the east or sunrise place, 



