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PAItJTE 



187 



N. w. part of Arizona, excluding the 

 Chemehuevi. 



With regard to the Indians of Walker 

 River and Pyramid Lake reservations, 

 who constitute the main body of those 

 commonly known as Paiute, Powell 

 claims that they are not Paiute at all, but 



PAIUTE WOMAN 



another tribe which he calls Paviotsu. 

 He says: "The names by which the 

 tribes are known to white men and tiie 

 department give no clue to the relation- 

 ship of the Indians. For example,- the 

 Indians in the vicinity of the reservation 

 on the Muddy and the Indians on the 

 Walker River and Pyramid Lake reserva- 

 tions are called Pai or Pah Utes^ but the 

 Indians know only those on the Muddy 

 by that name, while those on the other 

 two reservations are known as Paviotsoes, 

 and speak a very different language, l)ut 

 closely allied to, if not identical with, that 

 of the Bannocks" (Powell and Ingalls 

 in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1873). The Indians of 

 Walker r. and Pyramid lake claim the 

 Bannock as their cousins, and say that 

 they speak the same language. The dif- 

 erent small bands have little political co- 

 herence, and there is no recognized head- 

 chief. The most influential chiefs among 

 them in modern times have been Winne- 

 raucca, who died a few years ago, and 

 Natchez. As a rule they have been peace- 

 able and friendly toward the whites, al- 

 though in the early sixties they several 

 times came into collision with miners and 



emigrants, hostility being frequently pro- 

 voked by the whites themselves. The 

 northern Paiute were more warlike than 

 those of the S., and a considerable num- 

 ber of them took part with the Bannock 

 in the war of 1878. Owing to the fact that 

 the great majority of the Paiute (includ- 

 ing the Paviotso) are not on reservations, 

 many of them being attached to the 

 ranches of white men, it is impossible to 

 determine their population, l)ut they may 

 be safely estimated at from 6,500 to 7,000. 

 In 1906 those on reservations in all Nevada 

 were reported to number, at Walker River 

 res., 486; at Moapa res., 129; at Pyramid 

 Lake res., 554; at Duck Valley (Western 

 Shosho'ni agencv), 267; not under an 

 agency ( 1900) , 3, tOO. In Utah there were 

 76 Kaibab, 154 Shivwits, and 370 Paiute 

 not under an agency; in Arizona, 350 

 Paiute under the Western Nevada School 

 Superintendent. 



As a people the Paiute are peaceable, 

 moral, and industrious, and are highly 

 commended for their good qualities by 

 those who have had the best opportuni- 

 ties for judging. While apparently not 

 as bright in intellect as the prairie tribes, 

 they appear to possess more solidity of 

 character. By their willingness and effi- 

 ciency as workers they have made them- 

 selves necessary to the white farmers and 



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have been enabled to supjily themselves 

 with good clothing and many of the com- 

 forts of life, while on the other hand they 

 have steadily resisted the vices of civiliza- 

 tion, so that they are spoken of by one 

 agent as presenting the "singular anom- 

 aly" of improvement by contact with the 



