NOUN
- a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
How To Use Shoshoni In A Sentence
- Shoshonite nearest the contact with the overlying flow is scoriaceous and, being less weather resistant, has eroded back to form a conspicuous bench.
- We had for-real cowboys, Basque sheepherders, hardrock miners, Shoshoni and Paiute Indians, wild-game hunters from all over the world, various and sundry railroad workers, and tourists passing through on U.S. 40, the main highway bisecting the nation at that time. Beard
- The Blackfeet and other enemy tribes raided Shoshoni camps for horses, yet allied tribes ‘visited them for the purpose of swapping and bartering for their cayuses.’
- ARCHIBALD: Well, there's an image there of Lewis wearing an otter skin that was decorated with ermin (ph), that was given to him by a Shoshoni Indian by the name of Camiowi (ph). CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2004
- Her native language, Ute, is closely related to Shoshoni.
