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Shoshone

[ US /ʃoʊˈʃoʊni/ ]
NOUN
  1. a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
  2. the language spoken by the Shoshone (belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family)

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  • By CAROLE CLOUDWALKER Staff writer A Colorado man camping with his family at Big Game Campground in Shoshone Forest was attacked by an emaciated male mountain lion on Sunday evening, July 12. This should probably be under message board but here is a mountain lion attack which is rather unusual in several respects even
  • Shoshone nation. our hunters joined us with 2 deer in tolerable order. on the Side of the Hill near the place we dined Saw a gange of Ibex or big horn Animals I Shot at them running and missed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
  • You had to ask for it by name and it wasn't listed on their table; but, if you knew it was there and I got word from a little birdie to ask for the "Shoshone" - which apparently caused the fine folks pouring beer much amusement they would pour a wonderfully sour and refreshing dark Flanders Red. Archive 2009-08-01
  • Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 10: 55 PM my mistake (even after i read your comment rana, i was still reading "yosemite" which is what i meant to type) thanks for pointing out my error. yellowstone would more likely have been blackfoot or shoshone. and thank you, when you noticed the error, you still got my point. correction welcomed, and it's good to be understood. Always the resentments directed at the wrong target
  • Shoshonean dialects be such evidence, and none of a movement from within this area out of it, although such movements must have taken place, at least in the early history of the region. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198
  • Sacagawea belonged to the Shoshone Indians. She was born to a tribe of Shoshone in 1788.
  • This preserve of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho dates back to 1937, decades before the United States passed the Wilderness Act, in 1964.
  • Elevation 1,110 ft. The word "cucamonga" is from the Shoshonean, meaning "sandy place. The Annotated "Pride of Cucamonga"
  • It happens that the Hopi tongue is a composite, mainly a Shoshonean dialect, probably accumulated as the various clans of the present tribe gathered in northeastern Arizona, from the cactus country to the south, the San Juan country to the northward and the Rio Grande valley to the eastward. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
  • However, some theories have suggested that Southern California was the original home of the first Uto-Aztecans and that the Paiute and Shoshone diverged from the main group by migrating eastward into the Great Basin. Are you related to the Aztecs?
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