2. • The Shoshone had no language of their own.
• The dialect differed from tribe to tribe.
3. • Women wore long deerskin dresses.
• Men wore breechcloths and leggings, buckskin shirts.
• Men and women wore moccasins on their feet.
• Facial paint was used to religion.
• Women would braid their hair.
• Shoshone women processed rabbit furs and other animal
hides for clothing.
4. • They used long bows made from hardwood and
arrowheads made from bone, flint or obsidian.
• The Shoshone did not acquire guns like other tribes.
• When using axes or clubs, they were frequently joined by
small shields with wooden frames covered in leather.
5. • They mostly ate berries, roots, pine nuts, rabbit,
antelope, and buffalo meat, depending on where they
were and the traveling time.
• They lived primarily on buffalo meat
• They ate all kinds of veggies: they would boil them by
putting hot ricks into watertight baskets full of water.
• In the spring, summer or fall when the soil was soft they
would dig the roots up and boil, roast, dried, baked or
eaten raw.
• Sego roots was another root, the size of a walnut that
could be ground into flour, cooked or eaten raw.
6. • Shamans were tribe doctors.
• They’d use herbs, roots, and chants to cure the sick.
• The Shamans would gain their healing “powers” through
visions from the Creator.
7. Occupied territory in California , Idaho ,Nevada ,
Utah and Wyoming.
Shoshone means in the “in valley” or “inland”.
They were so into using everything that the land
provided them with
8. In 1800 12 year old
Shoshone girl by the
name of Sacajawea
was abducted by the
Hidatsa Indians, later to
be sold as a slave to
Toussaint
Charbonneau, a French
Canadian trapper, who
then married her. When
the Lewis and Clark
Expedition hired
Charbonneau as a
steersman, Sacajawea
joined the team as
guide and interpreter.
