Shoshone

[ shoh-shoh-nee ]

/ ʃoʊˈʃoʊ ni /

a river in NW Wyoming, flowing NE into the Big Horn River. 120 miles (193 km) long.

a member of any of several Numic-speaking peoples of California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.

the language or languages of the Shoshone.

Also Sho·sho·ni (for defs 2, 3).

Origin of Shoshone

An Americanism dating back to 1805; < an Eastern Shoshone band name

“So if Cliven Bundy wishes to pay taxes or grazing fees—he should pay it to the Shoshone,” she writes.

How Cliven Bundy and the Land Rights Movement Screws Native Americans |Caitlin Dickson |May 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
When I sell a ticket to Shoshone, I'm the ticket agent, and nothing else.

Good Indian |B. M. Bower
The Moqui, as before observed, does not properly belong to the Shoshone family, but shows a connection with the Aztec.

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 3 |Hubert Howe Bancroft
In contrast to the previously described Shoshone, the Dukarika traveled mostly on foot, although a very few had horses.

Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society |Robert F. Murphy

Moreover, Shoshone not generally associated with Washakie's leadership who possessed horses joined the latter for buffalo hunting.

Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society |Robert F. Murphy
At the Shoshone village, uneasy, the men were waiting for him.

The Magnificent Adventure |Emerson Hough

Shoshone

/ (ʃəʊˈʃəʊnɪ) /

plural -nes, -ne, -nis or -ni a member of a North American Indian people of the southwestern US, related to the Aztecs

the language of this people, belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family