Shoshone
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9.4
- noun
- /ʃoʊˈʃoʊni/
- First, it found that the homestead laws, under which some private land was created within Western Shoshone territory,
Examples
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June Mosho was singing now, a song slower than the others, more mournful, in Shoshone.
Fiction book (1993) -
After the rattle passed to the next man, who was singing in Shoshone, he held the water drum on his knees.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's greed and pride that have made Shoshone Mountain necessary.
Fiction book (1993) -
I was just near there (Shoshone), seeing the Craters of the Moon Monument, and had no idea it existed.
Blog text (19) -
The angry, red-bearded lawyer maintained that the federal government had exercised its powers as trustee to defraud the Western Shoshone nation of its land.
Fiction book (1993) -
Nunamaker went on two specimen-gathering trips to the Knife Point Glacier in Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest.
Academic text (1996) -
No one knows exactly where they originated from, but they were (it is thought) linguistically related to the Aztecs and (possibly) spoke a tongue similar to the Shoshone language.
Blog text (19) -
The elder spoke to the children in Shoshone to teach them their heritage.
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Many cultural stories are passed down orally in Shoshone to preserve the history of the tribe.
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She translated the ancient texts from English into Shoshone for the community.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shoshone as the name of a language comes from the name of the people, from Shoshoni, which likely meant 'people' or was tied to 'high grass' in their homeland. So Shoshone the language simply means the speech of the Shoshone people.