Tushepaw

plural Tushepaws

1. historicalA member of a Native American group mentioned in some early travel accounts.

   In answer to his eager questions, the Tushepaws informed him that the Great River was but two days distant and that a small party of white men had just descended it.

   1909, William Denison Lyman, The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce

1. not comparableOf or relating to these people.

   Then a Tushepaw boy, who understood Shoshone, translated Clark's speech into his own people's tongue.

   2015, James West Davidson, A Little History of the United States, page 111

1. The language of these people.

   English to French to Minataree to Shoshone to Tushepaw. The track of that speech gives a small idea of the patchwork of languages […]

   2015, James West Davidson, A Little History of the United States, page 111