The document summarizes information about the Plateau tribes of Native Americans, including the Nez Perce and Shoshone. It describes their traditional food sources of salmon, berries, and game. It also discusses typical housing like tepees, clothing styles that differed by gender, and their spiritual traditions which involved harmony with nature. Ceremonial dances and artistic traditions like buffalo hide painting are also outlined.

1. Basic information
•Plateau
•Hunter Prescott & Aaron Andaya
•Period 4

2. -Flathead, Nez Perce, Paiute, Shoshone, Spokane,
Yakima
This is the Nez Perce This is the Shoshone
Tribe

3.  Salmon, squirrel, buffalo, sheep, antelope, berries,
nuts, seeds, turnips, rabbits, rodents were all part of
the Plateau tribes food pyramid
These foods were eaten because they were easy to
access and were in there region/hunting territory
Salmon Berries Walnuts

4. Typical women clothing in this region for women were
Skirts, and hats.
Young boys usually went naked.
Men would were moccasins and animal skin leggings.
They would also were necklaces and all would pierce
their ears.

5. Typical homes in the Plateau regions were tepees which
were mainly made out of buffalo hide. Tribe members
would also make cone shaped homes made from brush
grass and cone shaped huts made from bark walls.
This is a tepee

6. The Plateau religion felt a deep spiritual tie to the earth.
They lived in harmony with nature and were closely
related with each other. Each member of the tribe had a
spiritual guardian called a Wyakin that protected the
person and gave them help. In honor of there guardian
tribe members would carry small bundles of materials
that represented their Wyakin. Today the plateau native
Americans have adopted the Christianity religion.
This region tied to the earth and
lived with nature

7. These native Americans did a number of
ceremonial dances some of them were the round
dance (was done when food was plentiful) the
father dance ( honored creator and asked for good
health) and the sun dance (done after a buffalo
hunt)
This is a sun dance

8.  Each tribe within the Plateau region has their own
artistic traditions.
The Shoshone would participate in elk and buffalo hide
painting to record tribal history they also used this for
leather
Another example example
This is the buffalo hide painting

9.  Washakie was the chief of the eastern
Shoshone. He is famous for signing the Treaty
of Fort Bridger in 1863.

10. This region had a very loosely organized government
 They used plants, charms, and chants to cure
illnesses
 Has 4,500 Shoshone tribal members as of the 1990
 One of the tribes in the Plateau is the Nez Perce
which means pierced nose
 Shaman were believed to have miraculous powers
These are some plants they used for
This is the shaman
illnesses

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