THESE PIAUTES SPOKE NUMIC LANGUAGE OF THE THE UTO - AZTECAN. THEY WERE FORAGERS FOR THE MOST PART AND HAD UNFRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THEIR NEIGHBORING UTES. THEY WERE FRIENDLY TO THE WESTERN SHOSHONI. THE SPANISH TRAIL DOCUMENTS HAD A STRONG IMPACT ON THE SOUTHERN PAIUTES. THEY REFUSED TO JOIN THE UTES ON THE UINTAH RESERVATION. SEYMORE BELIEVES THAT PEOPLE WHO OCCUPIED PREHISTORIC SITES IN THIS VALLEY NEAR LAS VEGAS PRACTICED SOME AGRICULTURE. A SITE TESTED IN THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY HAS ETHNOHISTORIC AND HISTORIC COMPONENTS. THIS SITE HELPS EXPLAIN THE FUTURE OF MANY EARLY DIARISTS WHO RECORDED THE NATURE OF NATIVE PEOPLE IN THE VALLEY. IN THE LATE 1800'S THE PAIUTES WHO WERE ENCOUNTERED LIVED IN AT RANCHERIAS AND RAISED CROPS OF GRAIN, POTATOES AND MANY MELONS. AT BIG SPRINGS THEY FOUND SOUTHERN PAIUTE MATERIALS ABOVE ANASAZI MATERIALS.
IN 1855 A STRONG NEGATIVE INFLUENCE TO THE SPANISH WAS FROM THE PAIUTES. AFTER 20 YEARS OF MORMON SETTLEMENT THE SOUTHERN PAIUTES BANISHED TO THE MOAPA RESERVATION.
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