Taken from the “Summation of Animal Foods Used by Shoshoni People of the Great Basin,” as compiled from the work of anthropologist Julian Stewart

“Escalante observed in 1776 that the people near Great Salt Lake, which he did not visit, were called Puaguampes or ‘sorcerers’ (the Shoshoni word for shaman is puhagunt) and that they spoke Comance (which is identical with Shoshoni). They were, he said, eating herbs and living in houses of dry grass and earth. They were not enemies of the Ute and Utah Lake people, though there had been some restraint between the two tribes since the former had killed a Ute man.”