Shoshoni
noun
Shoshonis
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pluralof Shoshoni.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 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
Beyond some great falls in the Missouri there was a gate, by which the Shoshonis came out of the mountains to hunt the buffalo on the plains.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
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
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
