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

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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