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Shoshone   /ʃoʊʃˈoʊni/   Listen
Shoshone

noun
1.
A member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States.  Synonym: Shoshoni.
2.
The language spoken by the Shoshone (belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family).



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Shoshonean
Shoshonean language


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"Shoshone" Quotes from Famous Books



... the dark. "In fact, a good deal, I reckon. My present woman's a Shoshone—we're livin' up Horse Creek, below Laramie. Them Shoshones make about the best dressers of ...
— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough
... desert-wisdom to a confused world. Her play The Arrow Maker exhibits the behavior and fortunes of a desert-seeress among her own people. Love and the Soul-Maker anatomizes love as a primal force struggling with and through civilization. From Paiute and Shoshone medicine men, the only poets Mrs. Austin knew during her formative years, she acquired that grounding in basic rhythms which led her to write free verse years before it became the fashion in sophisticated circles and persuaded her that American ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren


Words linked to "Shoshone" :   American Indian, Ute, Hopi, Indian, Shoshonian language, Piute, Sacagawea, Shoshonian, Red Indian, Paiute, Comanche, Sacajawea


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