Shoshone

How To Use Shoshone In A Sentence

• The Hopi number about 2,500 and are a Shoshonean stock. The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
• Their language is known as Cahita, being the same as that spoken, with dialectic differences, by their neighbours, the Tehueco, and Yaqui, and belonging to the Piman branch of the great Shoshonean stock. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• Among the Shoshones and Utes, twins were sometimes looked upon as a sign of impending bad luck.
• As he pulled the dead body from the spring the water became agitated, and from the bubbles arose a vapor that gradually assumed the form of a venerable Indian, with long white locks, in whom the murderer recognized Waukauga, father of the Shoshone and Comanche nation, and a man whose heroism and goodness made his name revered in both these tribes. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 07 : Along the Rocky Range
• Neither the source of the Missouri River nor the Shoshones had been found.
• The 32-year-old mechanic and ex-Marine from Windsor, Colo., found a ranger at the Shoshone National Forest and informed him of the attack.
• Then he chased after the ambulance on the slick highway, pulling into the LDS Church parking lot in Shoshone 20 minutes after the ambulance did. Medpundit
• Here an aide informed the President that the Ute, of which the Shoshone were a segment, had indeed fought the Arapaho for a century, and it was true that the Arapaho did eat dogs. Centennial
• Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants 'lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of four competing voices-from the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him, to Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl - captive and interpreter for the expedition, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived. I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall: Book summary
• By the mid-nineteenth century, they had pushed their enemies, particularly the Shoshone, Flathead, and Kootenai, west across the Rocky Mountains.