Shoshonen.adj.

1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 19 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 120 The Shoshonees may be estimated at about 100 warriors.

1830 Western Monthly Rev. 3 562 The Shoshonee are a numerous and powerful tribe of Indians.

1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 200 The Shoshones are the Snakes.

1836 W. Irving Astoria II. xi. 132 The Shoshonies are a branch of the once powerful and prosperous tribe of the Snakes.

1860 M. Reid Odd People 331 In respect to his ‘settled’ mode of life, the Shoshokee offers a striking contrast to the Shoshonee. Many of the latter are Indians of noble type.

1868 W. D. Whitney Lang. & Study of Lang. (ed. 2) ix. 350 The Shoshonee and Comanche ranged from the shores of Texas north-westward.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 827 Wininasht, or Western Shoshones.

1884 W. Shepherd Prairie Experiences 59 The Crows..came down to visit the Rapahoes, Shoshones, and other tribes.

1918 J. E. Rees Idaho Chronol., Nomenclature, Bibliogr. 111 The name comes from two Indian words, ‘Shawnt’, meaning ‘abundance’, and ‘shaw-nip’, ‘grass’, which was etymologically changed to the euphonious name ‘Shoshoni’ and in English conveys the thought of ‘abundance of grass’.

1938 J. H. Steward Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolit. Groups (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 120) 238 Shoshoni and Ute were periodically at grips.

1959 E. Tunis Indians 91/1 In time, the Shoshone in the far west were following social patterns that had been folk-ways along the Missouri.

1977 J. Gunn in Hill & Gunn Individual in Prehistory ix. 190 If it is assumed that Shoshoni ware is truly diagnostic of Shoshoni population movement, these data are incongruent with the proposed 1000-year-later migration of the Shoshoni into the Great Basin.

1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet I. xiv. 218 I addressed him in Shoshone, which beautiful dialect is common to the Comanches, Apaches, and Arrapahoes.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Shoshonean family (in southern California and eastward, including Ute, Paiute, Shoshone, Comanche, and Hopi).

1977 Language 53 459 The correlations with Cupan yax ‘to be’, Shoshoni yik^wɨ ‘to sit (pl.)’, and a present-tense suffix in Southern Paiute are improbable.

1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 17 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 133 I was to bring on the party and baggage to the Shoshone Camp.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. xvi. 260 There was but little chance of meeting the Shoshonie bands.

1886 Outing Dec. 198/2 Dick had..a Shoshone woman for his wife.

1926 D. Branch in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 128 The precarious, abject living of the Shoshone Diggers.

1956 J. Whatmough Lang. xii. 221 A Shoshoni dialect spoken in southwestern Utah.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 1- a/6 What more fitting tribute to those who fought and died in this struggle, U.S. soldiers, Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow and Shoshone warriors, than to protect it for those who follow us?