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Show PAIUTES NOTED- OTHER TRIBES. 405 bas of the Rio Colorado they named yet other nations, calling them Payuchas," Japul, Gualta, and Ba- Apache. They are now confined to reservations in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northeastern Utah, where they number in all 2,890. They appear to be decreasing in numbers. The principal divisions now officially recognized are the Capote, Muache, Wiminuchi, Tabe-quache, Uinta, and White River Utes. Other published names for the group are: Eutah, Eutaw, Gutah, Iuta, Jutjoat, Utaw, Yiuhta, Youta, Youts, Yutas, Yute, Yutta, etc.- F. W. H. u The Paiute Indians of the Shoshonean linguistic stock. The name is of rather indefinite application, having been given by various writers to most of the Shoshonean tribes of eastern Utah, northern Arizona, southern Idaho, eastern Oregon and Nevada, and eastern and southern California. According to Powell, the leading authority on the Shoshonean tribes, the name signifies " true ( = pat) Ute," although it is popularly accepted to mean " water Ute." In its strict application the name belongs exclusively to the Corn Creek tribe of southwestern Utah, but for convenience ethnologists now employ the name to designate the Shoshonean tribes of southwestern Utah from about the locality of Beaver, the southwestern part of Nevada, and the northwestern part of Arizona, including the Chemehuevi of the Colorado river. Under it are included also the tribes of southeastern California from about the neighborhood of Owens valley, along the eastern slopes of the sierras and to the southward of Tulare lake and east of the Coast range. The Paiute population is not definitely known. Those gathered on reservations in Nevada number 1* 350, but in that State alone there are 6,815 natives not under an agent. The entire population is probably not far from 2,500, distributed as follows: Utah, 500; northern Arizona, 500; southern Nevada, 1,000; southeastern California, 500. Other Paiute names found in literature are Diggers ( applied also to other root- digging Indians), Pah- |