Tooele County Chronicle | 1947-06-13 | Page 7 | Not Deep Searchers for Indian Words

wot not deep eap searchers for in words the UTAH magazine for may 19 47 contains the following state ment in an article on utah s great natural bridges these people the palates Pai Pa utes lutes knew of the bridges and had a name which they ap plied to all such natural bridges ma va talk tump under the hor se s belly this was as close as they could describe an arch or bridge such twaddle on page s dictionary of southern he gives the word pai saka bridge so they did have a word for bridge used it and it is to be found in a diction ary in talking to a from iba pah he gave the word for bridge as pai chock an indian from kan osh said pai soka an indian from moccasin springs used the word pai shock so pai pal saka pai soka maishock Pai shock all are related all mean bridge and it is not necessary for the in dian than to crawl under the horse s belly in pantomime to convey the meaning of something you can walk under if writers on the indians would only give it half thought instead of none there would be less errors