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Shoshoni

American

[shoh-shoh-nee] / ʃoʊˈʃoʊ ni /

noun

plural

Shoshonis,

plural

Shoshoni

Shoshone.

Example Sentences

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Sacajawea, the celebrated Shoshoni who proved so valuable on the Lewis and Clark expedition, dies of a fever at the age of 25.

From Time Magazine Archive

After graduating from the University of Utah College of Law, he worked as a tribal lawyer for the Shoshoni.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne.

From Time Magazine Archive

Make the reverse gesture for Shoshoni, i.e., begin away from the body, drawing the hand back to the side of the right hip while rotating it.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

Well, this seemed to give them the entrée into the best Shoshoni circles.

From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Hough, Emerson

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