Native American vs Shoshone

Shoshone vs Native American

Native American and Shoshone both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but Shoshone is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No
Shoshone	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Shoshone is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Shoshone is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Native American:

Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Shoshone: a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States

Other hyponyms of Native American include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, Injun, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Arawakan, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Native American (noun)	Shoshone (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	the language spoken by the Shoshone (belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family)
	a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States

Native American (adjective)	Shoshone (adjective)
of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Native American and Shoshone

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