Shoshonean
Americannoun
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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
The mythology of the Shoshonean Mission Indians was not essentially different from that of the other Indians of Southern California.
From The Religion of the Indians of California by Kroeber, A. L.
Eventually he became the highest authority on the Shoshonean tribes.
From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
The Diegueño in the coast mountains and on the coast were culturally similar to the Shoshonean Luiseño, with whom they are generally included as the present Mission Indians.
From The Religion of the Indians of California by Kroeber, A. L.
Upon the east they reached nearly to the border of the State, the Palaihnihan, Shoshonean, and Washoan families hemming them in in this direction.
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
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