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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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"Shoshone" Quotes from Famous Books



... of migratory hunting tribes. They claim a certain area whose boundaries, however, are often ill-defined and subject to fluctuations, because the lands are not held by permanent occupancy and cultivation. An exceptional case is that of the Shoshone Indians, inhabiting the barren Utah basin and the upper valleys of the Snake and Salmon Rivers, who are accredited with no sense of ownership of the soil. In their natural state they roved about in small, ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple
... 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 ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren


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


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