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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".
Shoshoni is a town in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 471 at the 2020 census , a 27.4% decline from 649 at the 2010 census . The town has gained notoriety as a speed trap due to numerous references citing its aggressive enforcement of traffic laws.
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 ...
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]
Shoshone encampment in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, photographed by W. H. Jackson, 1870. Shoshone National Forest is named after the Shoshone Indians, who, along with other Native American groups such as the Lakota, Crow and Northern Cheyenne, were the major tribes encountered by the first European explorers into the region.
Chief Pocatello (known in the Shoshoni language as Tondzaosha (Buffalo Robe); 1815 – October 1884) was a leader of the Northern Shoshone, a Native American people of the Great Basin in western North America. He led attacks against early settlers during a time of increasing strife between settlers and Native Americans.
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.