Shoshones

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shoshones \Sho*sho"nes\, n. pl.; sing. {Shoshone}. (Ethnol.)
     A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians,
     comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho
     into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied
     especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
     [1913 Webster]