Shoshone

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Heebe-tee-tse, Shoshone Indian, photograph by Rose & Hopkins, c. 1899.

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Also Known As	Snake • Shoshoni

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Heebe-tee-tse, Shoshone Indian, photograph by Rose & Hopkins, c. 1899.

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Topics

Gosiute Shoshone-Bannock Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin Comanche Bannock Paiute Washoe Ute Mono

Key People

Washakie

Washakie

Shoshone chief

Julian Steward

Julian Steward

American anthropologist