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1791 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1794) 1st Ser. III. 24 The tribes of Indians..were called..the Blackfeet tribe, the Snake Indians[, etc.].

1805 P. Gass Jrnl. 22 Oct. (1807) xiv. 154 This..is the same river whose head waters we saw at the Snake nation.

1813 Weekly Reg. 4 265/2 They happily fell in with a small party of Snake Indians.

1819 E. Dana Geogr. Sketches Western Country 54 The stature of these natives, of which the Snake tribe is the largest, may generally be considered a size larger than the whites.

1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. 24 Nov. (1898) 55 Last night on Counting them over find now four Hundred of the following nations—Ietans—Arrapohoes—Kiawa Padduce—Cheans—Snakes.

1843 T. Talbot Jrnl. 7 Sept. (1931) 45 The trappers prefer Snake Indians and Snake horses before any race of men or horses in the world.

1844 D. Lee & J. H. Frost Ten Years in Oregon xix. 211 A stone that he had picked up in his journey..in the Snake country.

1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. xi. 152 One of the men called himself a Utah, the other a Soshonee or Snake.

1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake I. vii. 118 These Indians (Snakes I think) were small-sized.

1890 N. P. Langford Vigilante Days xiii. 161 [With] a band of Snakes.., we can run off two thousand of the best of those animals.

1920 S. M. Drumm in J. C. Luttig Jrnl. Expedition Upper Missouri 166 Snake Indians. This tribe was so generally known by this term as to almost obscure the family name of Shoshoni.

1938 M. Thompson High Trails of Glacier National Park 53 The Snake warriors got ready for an attack as soon as the moon should come up.

1940 Places to see in Wyoming p. xxiv/2 Shoshones were also referred to as Snakes or the Snake People.

1977 H. Landar in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas II. iii. 327 The term Snake, applied to the Northern Paiute of Oregon, is used of other Shoshonean groups as well.