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Shoshone
The Shoshone are a group of Native American people. Their population is higher than many other tribes, with over 12,000 members throughout the American Midwest. About 5,000 members still speak the Shoshone language.
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What food did Shoshone eat in the summer?
Wild turkey, deer, fish, squash, beans, and corn were, and still are, favorite summertime foods.
What were the jobs of the men in a Shoshone tribe?
The men in the Sac and Fox tribes hunted and fished for food, they were also warriors.
Was Sacajawea a shoshone Indian?
No, Sacajawea was Native American. She was born into the Shoshone tribe.
What did the shoshone Indians look like?
Facially, Teton Sioux women in the 1800s looked almostthe same as they do today (the difference being eyebrows - see below). They generally wore their hair in two braids which hung down the front of the shoulders, with the hair parting painted red for women who had reached puberty. They generally have round faces and high cheekbones, very black, straight hair and skin like polished copper.
Before traders brought blankets, trade cloth and ready-made dresses, they wore long dresses of elk or deerskins, often with an added yoke section at the top which was decorated with beadwork or dyed porcupine quills. Moccasins and short beaded leggings completed the outfit. Long "hair pipe" necklaces were favoured by Sioux women - these were originally of bone. They also wore earrings and chokers of dentalium shells.
All 19th century Sioux men and women, like most native Americans, removed all facial hair including the eyebrows, at first using freshwater clam shells and later metal tweezers obtained in trade. This is one feature of native culture that is no longer seen in North America - and an obvious error in all Hollywood movies depicting Plains Indians (next time you see "Dances With Wolves", count the eyebrows).
The links below take you to images of Teton Sioux women taken in the 19th century - note that not one has any eyebrows.
The Sioux Indians often drank water or tea made from local herbs. Later, the Indians drank coffee brought by the Spanish to the west.
What is the Shoshone name for eagle?
There are many hundreds of native American languages (thousands if you include Central and South America). These are just a very few of the many possible words for eagle, bearing in mind that there are different words for various types of eagle:
Hidatsa..............iphoki, maisu, tsátsi
Lakota...............wanbli (eagle),anúnkasan (bald eagle), wanblÃgleÅ¡ka (spotted
eagle)
Osage................hon'ga
Yakama............ k'ámamul (bald eagle), xwayamá; xwaamá (golden eagle)
Apache..............tsa-cho (Jicarilla i-tsa)
Navajo..............a-tsa
Sanish (Arikara)...neétAhkas (golden eagle), arÃhtA (bald eagle)
Cheyenne..........vóaxaa'e (bald eagle), ma'xevé'késo (eagle)
Nahuatl (Aztec)...cuauhtli
Choctaw.............onsi, ta la'ko
Cherokee............wohali
Abenaki..............megeso, mgeso
Shawnee............pelaethee
Blackfoot............ksikkihkÃni (bald eagle), otaikimmio'tokaan (golden eagle)
Mohegan.............wómpissacuk (eagle), wôpsuq(bald eagle)
Naskapi...............michisuw (bald eagle)
Ojibwe...............giniw (golden eagle), ininizi(grey eagle), bapashko-giniw (bald
eagle), migizi (eagle)
Gwich'in..............tadhaa
Hupa...................tis'mil
Pima...................pa'haka
Zuni....................keekilee
What is the meaning of meaning of the name shoshone?
Shoshone comes from Sosoni, a Shoshone Amerindian word for high-growing grasses.
What do beads and feathers mean on the shoshone Indians?
Red Feathers sybolize physical vitality, good fortune and life. This is the basic symbolism I could find. Now I'm not neccessarily trusting the source of this answer.
In Native American culture the overall symbolism is derived through how the feather came into your possession. Ie) found it, a bird left it for you, you pulled it from a bird.
So it depends on the type of bird, how you got it, whether it was in a dream or awake etc.
Why did the Ute and Shoshone travel for food?
they were nomads and therefore had to travel to find food cause they don't grow crops.
The Sioux hunted buffalo on horseback. They rode with the buffalo herd for several days and weeded out a lesser number. When there were about 50 weeded out, the Sioux began to try to take down a few of them.
How did the shoshone get their name?
The Shoshone call themselves: Newe, meaning "People"
Different bands had names based on their geographic homelands and for their primary foodsources. Such as: Agai-deka -salomon eaters, Doyahinee --mountian people, Kammitikka--- Jack rabbit eaters
The word Shoshone is thought to come from the Shoshone language word for "high growing grass"---- soshoni'
Neighboring tribes called them "Grass House People," based on their traditional homes.
What types of jobs did the Shoshone Indians have?
the shoshone women were those of many talents. many could weave a basket, pick food, but especially pleasure ur poo hole. they like to put corn cobs from previous dinner in your bung hole and make u feel good and relaxed about urself
In what state could you find the Shoshone villages?
Known as the Snake Nation they occupied areas both east and west of the Rocky Mountains. They hunted buffalo in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, and some parts of California. Most still live in these areas today. There are 9 different tribes today and each lives on its own reservation with its own government, laws, police, and services.
What did the shoshone wear in the season?
The Shoshone Indians wore clothing made of deer hides, and in very cold weather they wore robes made of buffalo. There is a large Shoshone-Bannock reservation near where I live in Idaho. The museum has articles of clothing on display. You might check your local library for a book on Indian tribes. There will be pictures of "buckskins" and buffalo garments.
What crops did the shoshone grow?
The Shoshone Indians are nomadic people so they travel a lot. They can't raise crops because they don't stay in one place.
What was the name of the chief of the Shoshone tribe?
The Shoshone people existed in many different bands over many hundreds of years, so naturally they had more than one chief.
The most famous is probably Washakie of the Eastern Shoshones. He saw the futility of fighting the ever-growing number of white settlers, so instead he offered them support and protection. He had been born in the early 1800s and his father was a Flathead, but like most Plains people he took the tribe of his mother - the Shoshones.
He rose to prominence as a chief in the 1830s, becoming principal chief in 1843.
What did shoshone use to make weapons?
knives and bows arrows,lances and sheilds they also used spears ,nets and basket traps.they used fire bows ,war clubs and buffalo hide sheilds
Where did the Paiute Shoshone live?
The Shoshone territory included Idaho, California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. Out of that area Idaho had the largest population of Shoshone Indians. In 1905, one clan of the Shoshone had their own trail of tears when they were forcibly removed from their homeland and made to go live in Fort Hall, Idaho.
