Paiute War

Paiute (; also Piute) refers to three non-contiguous groups of

indigenous peoples of the Great Basin The Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin are Native Americans of the northern Great Basin, Snake River Plain, and upper Colorado River basin. The "Great Basin" is a cultural classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas and a cultural r ...

. Although their languages are related within the Numic group of

Uto-Aztecan Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztekan or (rarely in English) Uto-Nahuatl is a family of indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The na ...

languages, these three groups do not form a single set. The term "Paiute" does not refer to a single, unique, unified group of Great Basin tribes, but is a historical label comprising: * Northern Paiute people of northeastern California, northwestern Nevada, eastern Oregon, and southern Idaho *

Southern Paiute people The Southern Paiute people are a tribe of Native Americans who have lived in the Colorado River basin of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah. Bands of Southern Paiute live in scattered locations throughout this territory and ha ...

of northern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah * Mono people of east central California, divided into Owens Valley Paiute (Eastern Mono) and Western Mono (Monache) {{Authority control