- a variation of Shoshone.
Shoshoni
Americannoun
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Shoshonis,
plural
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Shoshoni
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After graduating from the University of Utah College of Law, he worked as a tribal lawyer for the 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.
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The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne.
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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.
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.
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..."
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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
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
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
“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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