Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Shoshone or Shoshoni (/ ʃ oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n i / ⓘ shoh-SHOH-nee or / ʃ ə ˈ ʃ oʊ n i / ⓘ shə-SHOH-nee), also known by the endonym Newe, are an Indigenous people of the United States with four large cultural/linguistic divisions: Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming; Northern Shoshone: southern Idaho; Western Shoshone: Nevada, northern Utah
Shoshoni is the northernmost member of the large Uto-Aztecan language family, which includes nearly sixty living languages, spoken in the Western United States down through Mexico and into El Salvador. [7] Shoshoni belongs to the Numic subbranch of Uto-Aztecan. [6] The word Numic comes from the cognate word in all Numic languages for "person".
The northernmost Uto-Aztecan language is Shoshoni, which is spoken as far north as Salmon, Idaho, while the southernmost is the Nawat language of El Salvador and Nicaragua. [3] [4] [5] Ethnologue gives the total number of languages in the family as 61, and the total number of speakers as 1,900,412. [6]
Bands of Western Shoshone are named for their traditional geographical homelands and their primary food sources. Kuyatikka (Kuyudikka, Bitterroot Eaters), Halleck, Mary's River, Clover Valley, Smith Creek Valley, Nevada [3]
The Akaitikka are Numic speakers, speaking the Shoshone language. [3]Fishing is an important source of food, and salmon, and trout were staples. Gooseberries and camas root, Camassia quamash are traditional vegetable foods for the Lemhi Shoshone. [4]
Bands of Shoshone people were named for their geographic homelands and for their primary food sources. Kuccuntikka or Kuchun-deka (Guchundeka', Kutsindüka, Buffalo Eaters [2] [14]), living on the eastern edges of the Great Basin along the upper Green River Valley, Big Sandy River and Wind River eastward to the Wind River Basin (Shoshone Basin) of western Wyoming and southwestward to Bear Lake ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Bands of Shoshone people were named for their geographic homelands and for their primary foodsources. Mountain Shoshone bands: Agaideka or Agai-deka (Akaitikka, Salmon Eaters, Lemhi Shoshone, living on the middle and lower Snake River and in the Lemhi River Valley, Lemhi Range and Beaverhead Mountains in Idaho, [3] [4] originally following the same lifeway as the Tukudeka.