- a variation of Shoshone.
Shoshoni
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Shoshonis,
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Shoshoni
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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
After graduating from the University of Utah College of Law, he worked as a tribal lawyer for the Shoshoni.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same sign is used for the Shoshoni, more commonly called "Snake", Indians, who as well as the Comanches belong to the Shoshonian linguistic family.
The Shahapts or Nez Percés, and the Shoshoni show some marked Plains traits.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Chief Washakie of the Wind River Shoshonis concludes: "The white man, who possesses this whole vast country from sea to sea ... cannot know the cramp we feel in this little spot..."
From Time Magazine Archive
The same is mentioned regarding a band of Shoshonis met near the summit of the Sierra Nevada, and one of "Diggers," probably Chemehuevas, encountered on a tributary of the Rio Virgen.
The Utes and Shoshonis do not claim to have descended from an ancient people that immigrated into their present seats from the Northwest.
From On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data by John Wesley Powell
Two ways the Blackfeet could get horses—over the Kootenai Trail, where Glacier Park is, or down in here, where the Shoshonis lived; for the Shoshonis also had horses—they got them west of the Rockies.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
“Sure we are—until we meet the Shoshonis and get some horses.”
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
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