Shoshone
Lifestyles
By: Jacquelyn Y.
The Shoshone eat lots of different things. If Spring
came late the Shoshone tribe might have starved. 
The adults would try to
go to sleep with a empty stomach so that the children would go to sleep with a
full stomach. The Shoshone would hunt for the fast animals so they could
force it from its hole. Some people of the Shoshone tribe ate
grasshoppers. They ate fish, birds, and rabbits.
The Shoshone never picked 1 place to live moving around the Northwest of the United States was kind of a home for them wherever they went. The Shoshone would move around the Northwest a lot. They sometimes traveled from the Great Basin to the Plains.
The Shoshone liked to go to different places and stay there for a while. The Shoshone spent the Winter in mountain valleys. 2 to 10 families can fit in 1 tipi. They lived in Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, and Utah. Nevada, Wyoming, and Montana. They lived in places that had tall grass, valleys, and mountains. The Shoshone lived around the Rocky Mountains.
The Shoshone Indians can live in wickups or caves. The wickups were made of poles and grass. Since grass feels kind of like points of a brush they called them brush huts. They would have to weave the grass around the poles to make the brush huts Then they thought of a new name for it that they now call wickups. Before the Shoshone had lived in any tipis or anything like that they lived in caves.
The Shoshone wore little clothing in the Summer. In the Summer the men wore loincloth of
antelope or deer hide. In the Summer the women wore aprons of animal hide
or sagebrush fiber. Both men and women walk barefoot. They guarded
their feet with pine pitch.
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