Shoshone
The Shoshone or Shoshoni (
i/ʃoʊˈʃoʊniː/ or i/ʃəˈʃoʊniː/) are a Native American tribe with four large cultural/linguistic divisions:
They traditionally speak the Shoshoni language, part of the Numic languages branch of the large Uto-Aztecan language family. The Shoshone were sometimes called the Snake Indians by neighboring tribes and early European-Americans.
Name origin
The name "Shoshone" comes from Sosoni, a Shoshone word for high-growing grasses. Some neighboring tribes call the Shoshone "Grass House People," based on their traditional homes made from soshoni'. Shoshones called themselves Newe, meaning "People."
Meriwether Lewis recorded the tribe as the "Sosonees or snake Indians" in 1805.
Language
The Shoshoni language is spoken by approximately 1,000 people today. It belongs to the Central Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Speakers are scattered from central Nevada to central Wyoming with the largest numbers of speakers (including children) on the Duck Valley and Goshute Reservations. The Idaho State University has Shoshoni language classes.
Podcasts:
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by Tia Jean
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by Tia Jean
Walk Away Part I
by: Tia Jean[Verse 1:]
I used to pass you by,
Now you looking kinda fly
When I'm trying to denie this feelingn never saw it coming
Boy it's getting me confused
[Hook:]
Don't wanna have to lie
Bout where I've been tonight
You know I got someone whos waiting
Don't know how to face him
When your the only one that's on my mine
[Chorus:]
Oh you come so high
I know I really wanna
I'm asking what I got
I know I can't afford to
Oh it's getting to hot
I know I shouldn't stay so hot how comes I can't seen to walk away
[Verse 2:]
You got me questioning
The relationship of me
Getting closer everytime we meet up I'm feeling caught up
Here's the time we pull away
You filling up me time
I'm late on the line
Gotta tell you the guilts killing me It isn't in me
Tell me why you playing on my mine
[Chorus x2]
Tick tock tick tock sitting here looking at he clock
Wondering why I haven't gone oh no
Tick tock tick tock should I stay or should I go
I don't know (I don't know) I don't know (I don't know)I don't know I don't know