California, Great Basin

1. California, Great Basin PowerPoint presentation By: Brady and Emma

2. Tribe Names • Shoshone • Paiute • Pomo • Modoc

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Beliefs/Religion • Indivisual and group ceremonialism • Most of the time was spent looking for food

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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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