Shoshonean
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(in some, especially earlier, classifications) a grouping of four branches of the Uto-Aztecan language family including Numic, Hopi, and several languages of southern California.
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a member of a group speaking a Shoshonean language.
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Origin of Shoshonean
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First came Wallace J. "Chief" Newman, a full-blooded Shoshonean Indian who coached 155-lb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hoffman worked upon the Shoshonean tribes, aided by the Director’s personal supervision.
From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by Powell, John Wesley
The religion of the Shoshonean Paiute or Chemehuevi in the desert adjoining the Mohave has been largely colored by the influence of the latter.
From The Religion of the Indians of California by Kroeber, A. L.
They belong to the great Shoshonean family, and are a short, stocky, gentle people, given to agriculture, sheep raising, basketry and pottery, and a little weaving and silver work.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton
Despite the presence of many Plains Indian culture elements, the social structure of the Fort Hall people was basically that of the Shoshonean population of the Basin-Plateau.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Murphy, Robert F.
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