The Shoshone Tribe...

The Shoshone's spiritual leader," Corbin Harney " made many changes to nature. He told the countries not to nuclear test in the nature by holding nuclear test conferences. He believed not to harm nature. Every morning, he rose with the sun offering songs as a prayer. Unfortunately, he died with cancer on July 10,2007.

The Great Leader

Religion

The Shoshone tribe told legends about why they ended up in the Great Basin. These legends were important because it reminded them of their ancestors and showed their beliefs.

Legends

The Shoshone tribe always did the sun dance when someone died or had birth. It lasted for a long time which is about 8 days. It showed that there is no true end to life but true rebirths.

Trading

The Shoshones traded bead works, feathers, horses, and clothing. Moccasins were popular during the era. The Shoshones traded with the Spanish (Spaniards) Even if the Crow were their enemy, some parts of the Crow tribe traded with the Shoshones!

Government

The Shoshone tribe worked on all kinds of artwork. Examples are Baskets, Beads, Hide Paintings, cave drawings and stone pottery. There are a couple that can be found in the Museums of the Native Americans.

Northern Shoshone are placed in Eastern Idaho, Western Wyoming,

and northeastern Utah. The Northern Shoshone lived in teepees,

rode horses and hunted buffalo most often. They dressed as

antelopes so the buffalo's would suspect nothing. But when they

got closer, they let their arrows fly and poof, dead meat.

Instruments

The Shoshones didn't really have a council. They usually consulted the chief or they prayed and made sacrifices to the gods. But other than that, they solved minor problems by consulting with the heads of their family, the men. Or sometimes the Chief. Young children were not punished like nowadays children because it was believed that it would make them depressed.

Northern Shoshone

Artwork

The Shoshones used drums, rattles, and flutes to make music. They used bones, wood, or animal hides for drum skins. They believed making music would please the gods. The Shoshones thought that some beats were sacred and they could be played at a specific time or a certain place.

Western Shoshone

The Western Shoshone settled in Idaho, California, Utah and Nevada. The Western Shoshone were related to many tribes. They were famous for legal battles over land rights with the government. The remaining descendants are still working hard against the federal government.

Music

In all tribes, music played a huge role in their society. Music was used for ceremonies, chief ceremonies, death, days of gods and lots more. They believed that when they played music, gods would favor them and send rain and blessings.

The Shoshone Tribe...

Chief Washsakie was famous for his great deeds of fighting and friendship with white settlers. The Shoshone did not attack the settlers but instead guided them through their territory. He later became a scout for the U.S army.

1798-1900

Chief Washakie earned his

title "chief" by doing great deeds and getting recognized again and again

in raids.

Chief Washakie

Role Of Women in the Shoshone Tribe

The role of Women in the tribe were simple. While the men hunted, women tool care of infants and children. Women who yet did not have children collected roots for the tribe and themselves, When the men brought the food, the women cooked it and they ate. This was the role of Women in the Shoshone tribe.

Eastern Shoshone

The Eastern Shoshone were concentrated in eastern Idaho, Western Wyoming, and Northeastern Utah. Briefly after 1750, war and heavy losses from the Blackfoot, Crow, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho pushed them south and westwards. A few of them went south and found Now-Day Texas where they became the Comanche.

Eastern Shoshone

The eastern Shoshone were concentrated in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana. Briefly after 1750, Heavy losses from the Crow, Blackfoot, Lakota, and Arapaho tribes pushed them South and Westwards. A few of them ventured South to Now-Day Texas, where they became the Comanche.

Other Ideas

This presentation will be divided into five different parts. Lifestyle, Government, Religion, Artwork and Others.

Shoshone Games

When the Shoshones are bored, they will need a game or something to play with other than working. The Shoshones made a hand-stick game for a short rest, and they made many other things, too.

Hand-stick Game

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As you know, there are many other things about the Shoshones. The Shoshone Indians are people so they have times when their bored, hungry, sad, or happy. We will tell you about some of the things they did.

Lifestyle

Albert, Jun and Eddie(#7)

The Great Basin

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When the Shoshones came from Asia,

they were one big group. Seeing as the

Shoshones used up resources in the

Great Basin too quickly, the Chief

decided to split into three

groups.

This is a map of the Great Basin

and the three Shoshone Tribes

The Shoshones were located along the side of the Sierra-Nevada. Along what is now California, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada.

They used resources up quickly so they split into three groups, even though they split into three groups, they still considered themselves one tribe. (We will come back to the three groups later)

Every year the Shoshone Indians have a pine nut festival at fall. It's where all 3 groups of the Shoshone tribe come together to eat pine nuts together. Pine nuts are very useful for the Shoshones. They made gravy, bread and many other things, too.

Pine nut Festival

Breech cloth

(Loincloth)

Berries

Pine-Nuts

Roots

Men wore Breech Cloth in the

winter and loincloths in the

summer. Women wore rabbit

clothing. Their clothing

changed every season.

Only the Chiefs wore long

robes, feather hats and

deer moccasins.

Salmon

Food

Deer Meat

Antelope Meat

Shoshone Dresses

Clothing

Shoshone Tribe

Houses

They spent their life in teepees.

Most of them were Nomadic at

first. But after they split into three

groups, there were no more needs

for them to be nomadic. So they spent their lives in teepees. their teepees

looked like upside-down-ice-cream cones. There were 15 poles in a teepee.

they all symbolized something to protect them.

No-ma-dic

Nomadic

Nomadic meant to move on after using up all their supplies

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