- a variation of Shoshone.
Shoshoni
Americannoun
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Shoshonis,
plural
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Shoshoni
plural
Other Word Forms
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The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Burton, which, it would be inferred, were collected in 1860-'61, from the tribes met or learned of on the overland stage route, including Southern Dakotas, Utes, Shoshoni, Arapahos, Crows, Pani, and Apaches.
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 Emerson Hough
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
Well, this was their range, young excellencies, and this was the head of the disputed ground between the Crows, Nez Percés, Flatheads, and Shoshonis, all of whom knew good buffalo country when they saw it.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
We are still on foot with Clark, you know, and we don’t know where the boats are, and we haven’t found any Shoshonis and we’ve not too much to eat.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
She had sickened, and she longed for the lodges of the Shoshonis.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The Arapahos and Shoshonis said that the word was true.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
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