Western Indians

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Western Indians
By Kylie, Shade, Fran, Garrett
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Homes

• Paiute brush shelters
• Miwok houses of wood
• Some Indian tribes teepees
• Some Pomo tribes teepees
• Ute cone shaped houses
• Most Western tribes pit houses, planks split
  from redwood
• Cherokee teepee
• Navajo hogans
• If they would moved they would use teepees
  because it was easy to move.
• If they didnt move houses of wood and other
  strong houses would stay up and wouldnt fall
  down.
• They used brush, redwood, and animal skins to
  make their homes because they were available to
  them.

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Way of Life

• Pomo each tribe live in extended families
• Most indians of the west were hunters.
• Sometimes they settled in the same place and
  sometimes they moved.
• Yokut indians made baskets, houses, boats, and
  mats.
• Chumash indians made cooking tools, bowls, and
  clothing.

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Foods

• Pomo gathered acorns ,berries, bulbous and
  seaweed caught fish, and hunted deer ,elk
  ,rabbits, and sea lions.
• Youkuts Their main foods are fish ,waterfowl
  ,shelfish, roots ,and seeds
• Paiute They hunted antelope, deer ,moutainsheep
  , rabbits ,and other game. They also collected
  berries ,nuts ,nuts ,roots ,and seeds. They also
  fished , planted beans ,corn ,and squash
• Shoshone They searched for seeds ,roots , fish,
  birds and small animals. Such as rabbits also
  they ate buffalo.
• Ute They hunted such as antelope, buffalo, elk
  ,and deer. They gathered berries ,nuts , roots ,
  and seeds.
• Cherokee Their main food is corn. They ate
  berries , nuts , squash , and fish.
• The most common foods were roots berries.
• Some odd foods were roots , seaweed ,and
  moutainlions.

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Interesting Facts

• Pomos spoke 7 different languages .
• The pomos were famous for making water tipe
  baskets that decorated with beeds, shells , and
  feathers.
• Life ways disrupted by mining boom ,into a life
  stock which destroyed plant food
• Today ,about 1,200 Yokuts live on reservation or
  in rancherias