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Shoshone

Shoshone

5 9.5
A person from a Native American group who lives in the western United States, especially Idaho, Utah and Nevada
  • noun
  • /ʃoʊˈʃoʊni/
: Shoshone
  • In the 1930s, the federal government undertook to organize new Western Shoshone governments.
  • Western Shoshone
  • Shoshone Nation
  • Shoshone land

Yeah, so going from where where our school was in in the South End to going to Speaks like it's like, it's like going into Shoshone country.

Examples

  • Uh, so, I'd like to begin by acknowledging that this broadcast is airing in the traditional lands of the Ute, the Paiute, the Goshute, and the Shoshone tribes.

  • In that year, as noted above, the Western Shoshone Sacred Lands Association was organized to press traditionalist claims.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Development and Present Role of the Western Shoshone National Council: Western Shoshone Political Organization

    Academic text (1992)
  • " It's pretty hard to say the Shoshone have no claims to a place called Shoshone Mountain.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The next step was the creation of the Western Shoshone National Council.

    Academic text (1992)
  • In practice, the Western Shoshone National Council is an incipient government of the federal type.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Today the Supreme Court ruled for the third time against the Shoshone's appeal.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • From that time until 1983-84, traditionalist strength within Western Shoshone communities either grew or was discovered.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The Shoshone people have a rich cultural heritage that reflects their history in the western United States.

  • Many members of the Shoshone community participate in traditional ceremonies that have been passed down through generations.

Synonyms

Native American
vsShoshone
93 3.4

A person whose family lived in North or South America before Europeans arrived

is a specific Indigenous group limited to parts of the western United States
Shoshoni
vsShoshone
1 9.1

A person from a Native American group in the western United States, mainly Idaho, Utah, and Nevada

is the variant form used for the same Indigenous group

Surface Forms

Shoshone singular
Shoshones plural

Etymology

Shoshone comes from the people’s own language, from a form like Shoshoni that is often said to mean 'people' or to be linked to a word for 'high grass' in the land they lived in. So Shoshone today means a member of that Native American people.