Shoshoni

American

[shoh-shoh-nee] / ʃoʊˈʃoʊ ni /

noun

plural

Shoshonis,

plural

Shoshoni

Shoshone.

Example Sentences

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Sacajawea, the celebrated Shoshoni who proved so valuable on the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies of a fever at the age of 25.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne.

From Time Magazine Archive

After graduating from the University of Utah College of Law, he worked as a tribal lawyer for the Shoshoni.

From Time Magazine Archive

So the real guide they had in the nameless and unknown country was a Shoshoni Indian girl.

From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Hough, Emerson

Noticed by Lewis and Clark on their first meeting with the Shoshoni in 1805.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

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