Shoshonean
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(in some, especially earlier, classifications) a grouping of four branches of the Uto-Aztecan language family including Numic, Hopi, and several languages of southern California.
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a member of a group speaking a Shoshonean language.
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Origin of Shoshonean
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First came Wallace J. "Chief" Newman, a full-blooded Shoshonean Indian who coached 155-lb.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the southwest Shoshonean tribes had pushed across California, occupying a wide band of country to the Pacific.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley
Very likely much of the area occupied by the Atsina was formerly Shoshonean territory.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley
The South Ute Indian Reservation in the south of the state is the home of the Moache, Capote and Wiminuche Utes, of Shoshonean stock.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
The Uinta Valley is the ancient and present home of the Uinta Indians, a tribe speaking the Uinta language of the Shoshonean family.
From Canyons of the Colorado by Powell, John Wesley
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