Great Basin Native Americans

1. The Great Basin Native Americans The Great Basin Eric Carrillo & Brendan Shuppert Period 4

2. Tribes of the Great Basin Bannock Tribe Chemehuevi tribe Kawaiisu Tribe Mono Tribe Paiute Tribe Panamint Tribe Shoshone Tribe Washoe Tribe Ute Tribe A Shoshone family picture The Ute Chief and his family

3. Foods in the Great Basin The people of the Great Basin ate: Buffalo Elk Deer Crickets Grasshoppers Pinenuts Berries and seeds The tribes of the Great Basin didn’t often farm because of the soil, so they relied on hunting and finding food rather then making it. They sometimes ate bugs and insects because of there lack of food.

4. Clothing of the Great Basin The people of The Great Basin usually wore the skin and leather of there kills. They also wore war bonnets with feathers on top to represent there superiority A Ute tribe chief Women of a Shoshone family A young Ute girl

5. Homes of the Great Basin The tribes of The Great Basin usually lived in Tipis because of there small size, there weight, and the portability of it. It was usually made of wood and hides of animals.

6. Native American Religions The Great Basin people believed in Peyotism , it is the honoring of a cactus fruit that is believed to be a spirit helper. The shamans gave there patients this cactus as a medicine. A picture of the Peyote growing in the desert A pot of peyote

7. Tradition or Ceremony of the Great Basin A whole tribe holding hands in a circle to complete the G host Dance. A man dressed as a eagles to represent bravery dancing in the Ghost dance The people of the Great Basin believed preforming this dance reunited themselves with there dead ancestors and there kills

8. Arts/Crafts of the Great Basin The females would often make baskets and clothing, while the men would paint the hide of there kills to represent a story. A painted hide representing a story Ute baskets Clothing made of cloth

9. A Famous Shoshone Sacajawea was a very famous Shashon Indian. She served as a guide for Lewis and Clark to help discover America. She had only brung her baby on her famous journey A sculpture of Sacajawea made of bronze

10. Interesting Facts from the Great Basin When Gold and Silver was found in California and Nevada, the settlers pushed the Ute tribe to near extinction. The tribes of The Great Basin had so little food sometimes they sometimes relied on eating Crickets, Grasshoppers, ants, and Caterpillars The Ute people preformed the Bear Dance to honor the Bears Feathers were worn on war bonnets to represent superiority. Girls would often play with store bought dolls with miniature Tipis.

11. Works Sited Griffin, Pierce. The Encyclopidia of Native Americans . Ney York: Penguin Group, 1995. Print. Charlotte, Greig . Native Americans . Bromall : Mason Crest Publishers Inc., 2002. Print. Mohal , . A Early American . St.Louis : Milliken, 2003. Print. Http : //www.legendsofamerica.com/bannock.html