bannock
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Bannocks,
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Bannock
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Idaho and Wyoming who merged with the Shoshone in the 19th century, now living primarily in southeastern Idaho.
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the language of the Bannock, belonging to the Shoshonean group of Uto-Aztecan languages.
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Etymology
Origin of bannock
before 1000; Middle English bannok, Old English bannuc morsel < British Celtic; compare Scots Gaelic bannach
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We will keep going back for the bannock tacos and the chance to eat in the Isken Hall, with windows all around overlooking the Lost Lake woods.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
Your selections include smoked salmon panini, venison chili, xuxem berry tea, dessert bars and bannock doughnuts.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
My characters take it for granted that their roads are made of biodegradable foam, 3-D printers spit out biological tissue, trucks drive themselves, and there’s a popular chain of bannock cafés in northern Canada.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2017
She makes bannock, a traditional round-shaped fry bread that’s eaten plain or with spreadable treats such as dips, hummus, jellies or jam.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2015
She gave Omakayas a crust of bannock bread, a treat, and sent her ahead, although she stayed within sight should Omakayas need her.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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Valenti claimed in her blog post that the Bannock County prosecutor used “the exact language of the trafficking law” in the kidnapping charges against the Swainstons.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
They found signs of Shoshone, Bannock, Crow and other Indigenous camps in every part of the basin.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
In light of the affidavit’s findings, Blackfoot Mayor Marc Carroll and the Shoshone Bannock Tribe have called for Rowland’s resignation and a public apology.
From Fox News ● Dec. 19, 2021
The U.S. military created the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone, by forcibly removing Nez Perce, Bannock, Shoshone, Crow, and Blackfeet communities from their ancestral lands.
From Slate ● May 11, 2021
But when I turned around, I realized that unless the Bannock Police Department hired hundred-year-old officers who got around with walkers, we were pretty safe.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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Bannocks o’ bear meal, Bannocks o’ barley; Here’s to the lads wi’ The bannocks o’ barley.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
This is the word the chief of the Bannocks sends you!”
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
Jack reported Indians near by—indeed saw them: guessed them to be Bannocks, as Crows would have come in to beg.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
It is noteworthy that contemporary Fort Hall informants still speak of the Oregon Paiute as Bannocks.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy
He had lived with the Crows and the Bannocks, it was true, but only as a friend and a man of peace, never as a warrior.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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