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The actual name "Shoshone" means "The Valley People" |
| The Shoshone,
Shoshoni or Snakes are
a tribe consisting of several bands. They are related to
the Paiutes, Comanches en Utes. The Shoshone lived in a wide area around the Great Basin and the Plains. The Shoshone adopted a horse culture but had trouble competing with tribes to the east who had better access to European trade and weapons. Unlike the bands west of the Rockies, which lived in grass huts and hunted birds and rabbits, the Shoshones in the east and north lived in tepees and hunted buffalo. The Northern Shoshone fought conflicts with settlers in Idaho in the 1860s which included the Bear River Massacre and again in 1878 in the Bannock War. They fought with the U.S. Army in the 1876 Battle of the Rosebud against their traditional enemies, the Lakota and Cheyenne. There are three large divisions of the Shoshone: The Northern, the Western and the Eastern. The Northern Shoshone concentrated in eastern Idaho. The Western Shoshone in Wyoming and north-eastern Utah. The Eastern Shoshone lived in Wyoming, northern Colorado and Montana. Conflict with the Blackfoot, Crow, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho pushed them south and westward after 1750. |
