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SHOSHONE [10 records]

Record 1 2022-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A spider of the family Tetragnathidae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Araignée de la famille des Tetragnathidae.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A spider of the family Cybaeidae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Araignée de la famille des Cybaeidae.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A caddisfly of the family Apataniidae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Trichoptère de la famille des Apataniidae.

Spanish

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Record 4 1995-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A language spoken by the Shoshoni, Indian people living in California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. This language belongs to the Numic group of the Uto-Aztecan family.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue de la famille uto-aztèque parlée par les Shoshones, Indiens des Grandes Plaines d’Amérique du Nord vivant en Californie, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.

Spanish

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Record 5 1995-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi, a Pueblo Indian people living in the midst of the Navajo Reservation and on the edge of the Painted Desert in Arizona.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue shoshone de la famille uto-aztèque parlée par les Hopi(Moki), Indiens pueblos vivant en Arizona.

Spanish

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Record 6 1995-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A language of the Numic group of the Uto-Aztecan family spoken by the Paiute, a Shoshonean people of western Utah, northwestern Arizona, southeastern Nevada and southeastern California.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue uto-aztèque parlée par les Paiute, peuple shoshone habitant l'ouest de l'Utah, le nord-ouest de l'Arizona, le sud-est du Nevada et le sud-est de la Californie.

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

An Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Luiseno, a Shoshonean people who inhabited a large area south and east of Los Angeles and north of San Diego, Californie. They were named after the Spanish mission San Luis Rey de Francia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue uto-aztèque parlée par les Luiseno, peuple shoshone qui habitait un grand territoire situé entre San Diego et Los Angeles en Californie.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heritage
CONT

The territory of the Western Shoshoni included central and western Idaho, northwestern Utah, central and northeastern Nevada, and Death Valley and Panamint Valley of California, largely barren and unproductive areas. They were sometimes referred to as "Diggers," from their habit of digging plant roots with a stick as an important means of subsistence. Another name applied was Shoshoko, meaning "walkers", to distinguish them from the horse-owning Shoshoni.

OBS

Digger: Said by Powell to be the English translation of Nuanuints, the name of a small tribe near St George, s.w. Utah,. It was the only Paiute tribe practising agriculture, hence the original signification of the name, "digger". In time the name was applied to every tribe known to use roots extensively for food and hence to be "diggers." It thus included very many of the tribes of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, tribes speaking widely different languages and embracing perhaps a dozen distinct linguistic stocks. As the root-eaters were supposed to represent a low type of Indian, the term speedily became one of opprobrium [pejorative].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Patrimoine
OBS

Il n’y a pas de traduction officielle pour «Digger» parce qu’il s’agit d’une tribu qui n’aurait jamais eu affaires avec les explorateurs francophones. Les peuples de cette tribu résident pour la plupart dans les États de Nevada et d’Utah dans le sud-ouest des États-Unis. Ils parlent une langue d’origine Uto-Aztèque, langue qui a plus d’affinité avec les autochtones du Mexique qu’avec ceux des Plaines canadiennes. Il existe pourtant un nom français pour désigner la division amérindienne à laquelle les «Diggers» appartiennent : Shoshones de l’Ouest - équivalent le plus proche, quoique imprécis. Au besoin, on peut toujours utiliser le terme anglais en expliquant en bas de page l’étymologie du terme «digger».

Spanish

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Record 9 1993-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
CONT

The Shoshoni ... the annual September buffalo hunt, when the various Shoshoni bands joined with the Bannock or Flathead in migrating to the Plains through the territory of their enemies, the Blackfoot and Crow. Adding to their economy was trade with the Flathead ... with whom they traded buffalo skins and salmon, for horses and mules.

OBS

Shoshonean tribes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
OBS

Shoshoni, Tutchoni : Équivalents français proposés par Richard Gratton, réviseur au Ministère des Affaires indiennes.

Spanish

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Record 10 1993-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A dialect of Shoshone of the Uto-Aztecan group spoken by the Comanche in Oklahoma. It became a lingua franca for much of the area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue de branche shoshone de la famille linguistique uto-aztèque parlée par les Comanche et devenue par la suite la seule lingua franca de la région.

Spanish

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