- a variation of Shoshone.
Shoshoni
Americannoun
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Shoshonis,
plural
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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
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
I came to visit Shoshoni many moons ago.
From They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland
Noticed by Lewis and Clark on their first meeting with the Shoshoni in 1805.
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
So did the Shoshonis, part of the time, but their usual trail to the buffalo was along the Missouri and this big bend.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
Without permission from their agents they traveled west into Wyoming, to talk with the Arapahos and Shoshonis at the Fort Washakie reservation.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The Shining Mountains were in sight; the land of the Shoshonis lay yonder, to the southwest.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
You see, this was on the road to the Great Falls, and the Shoshonis, Flatheads, and Nez Percés all went over there each summer to get meat.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
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