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  • Before relinquishing the command I now hold, I am constrained to ask the attention of the war and interior departments to the case of certain Piutes who were taken away from their tribes and homes in California, and carried to an Indian reservation among a strange people north of the Columbia River.

    Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1883

  • On page eighteen of the Army Report is a letter relating to the return of the Piutes from the Yakima Reservation to their home in Nevada, from Major A.M. Randol of the First Artillery, to the Assistant Adjutant-General of the Headquarters M.

    Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1883

  • After the capture of "the hostiles" she devoted herself to the interests of her people, the "Piutes," – going with them from Fort Harney, Oregon, to the Yakima Reservation, then to Washington City, ever intent on trying to accomplish something for their good.

    Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1883

  • Nez Perces Indians and in 1878 against the Bannocks and Piutes.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

  • Government man -- and you Piutes know all about it.

    The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels

  • Lieutenant Strothers of the United States Army and I talked with Piute Indians in Modoc County, after the "ghost dance" scare had subsided, who were firm in the belief that a chief of the Piutes died and then came back.

    Reminiscences of a Pioneer William Thompson

  • The Piutes always use burning fagots to drive hornets and other stinging insects from their nests, and they also use heat in opening the comb cells so that they can easily remove the larvae, which they eat without further preparation.

    The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

  • On the following night four grim Piutes brought Cayuse from his mountain retreat.

    The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels

  • Pits, and Piutes as a foe to be dreaded in the days of their power, and these people often speak of them in fear, not because they were brave in open field, but because of their skulking and sudden attacks upon unsuspecting foes.

    Reminiscences of a Pioneer William Thompson

  • The nomadic Utes, Piutes, Apaches, and Navajos for years raided the fields and flocks of this industrious, prosperous, sedentary people; in fact, the famous Navajo blanket weavers got the art of weaving and their first stock of sheep through stealing Hopi women and Hopi sheep.

    The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

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