Shoshonean
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Shoshoneans,
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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
Upon the south Shoshonean territory was limited generally by the Colorado River.
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 John Wesley Powell
They were surrounded on all sides by the cognate Apache except upon the north, where they meet Shoshonean tribes.
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 John Wesley Powell
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 earliest peoples inhabiting the northern Montana plains of which we have any record were apparently Snake Indians of Shoshonean stock.
From Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States Dept. of the Interior
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