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Add A Fact: "Pahranagat means 'feet sticking in water'"
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In the Paiute language, Pahranagat can mean “feet sticking in water,” an apt name for this wetland oasis straddling the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts.
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{{Cite web |title=Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge {{!}} About Us {{!}} U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |url=https://www.fws.gov/refuge/pahranagat/about-us |website=www.fws.gov |access-date=2024-10-04 |language=en-us |quote=In the Paiute language, Pahranagat can mean “feet sticking in water,” an apt name for this wetland oasis straddling the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts.}}
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PAHRANAGAT (Lincoln). The Pahranagat Range extends northwestward from the Sheep Range, bounded on the west by Tikaboo Valley and separated from Pahranagat Valley by the East Pahranagat Range on the east. Upper Pahranagat and Lower Pahranagat Lakes are in the lower valley (NJ 11-9). The name, a variant of Paraniguts, commemorates a Southern Paiute band that inhabited the valley, apparently the first named of the land features. Interpreters of the name agree that the initial element "pah" means "water," but there is wide variation in the interpretations of the rest of the word. Major G. W. Ingalls, who conducted a census of the Native Americans in 1873, reported that the inhabitants of this valley tilled the soil, their principal crop being squash. "The Pah-ran-a-gat Indians are a branch of the Ute family and derive their tribal appellation from the cultivation of the watermelon, which in their language is called pah-ran-a-gat (pah meaning water, and ran-a-gat meaning melon or vine-growing)" (SPD, p. 187). A. S. Gatschet in Wheeler (1879, p. 444) records that the name comes from Southern Paiute "pa rangar," meaning "squash." According to Hodge, Pa-ran-i-guts means "people of the marshy spring" (FWH, II, p. 202). Isabel T. Kelly has determined that the Southern Paiute name means "put their feet in the water" (M&M, p. 115).
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babbage (talk) 20:15, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
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PAHRANAGAT (Lincoln). The PAHRANA-
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The Pah-ran-a-gat Indians. — The Pah-ran-a-gat Indians are a branch of the Ute family and derive their tribal appellation from the cultivation of the watermelon, which in their language is called pah-ran-a-gat (pah meaning water, and ran-a-gat melon or vine-growing).
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