California, Great Basin

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Tribe Names• Shoshone• Paiute• Pomo• Modoc

Clothing• Simple Aprons or skirts• Shirts of grasses or leather strips• In cold months men wrapped in

animal hides• In the great basin the tribes made

robes of rabbit hide in the winter

Environment• Winter temperatures sometimes fall to below

20 degrees• Summer can reach a hot temperature of 100

degrees• Elevation is relatively high throughout the

basin and it is mountainous• The amount of rainfall varies a lot from year to

year• Rivers are fish filled

Adaptions• Hunted down Bison for food• Had tee pees to set up camp while

hunting bison• Clothes got lighter in the summer but

heavier and warmer in the winter• Mostly followed river for water• Made fish traps

Beliefs/Religion• Indivisual and group

ceremonialism•Most of the time was spent

looking for food

Housing• Consisted of windbreaks and lightly built

dome shaped structures made of brush• Simple homes made of bark while men used

deer antlers to strip the bark from a redwood tree

• They draped bark into a cone to form a house• In the great basin they used willow poles

shaped into a cone and covered with brush or reeds

Food• Hunted and gathered • In California they ate salmon as a main food

source• In the south they ate shellfish• Hunted deer with bow and arrow• Trapped rabbits and captured ducks in nets• In the great basin they ate objects like: Acorns,

Birds, Duck eggs, Tender shoots of cattail plants, and Jackrabbits

Transportation• They mainly used walking as a main

source of transportation• Although not until later on the

settlers brought over horses and they then started riding horses for transportation

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