Seasonal questions
Our people lived in-
A) Small family groups or bands
B) One nation
C) Small towns
A) Small family groups or bands
What does Agi deka mean?
Salmon Eaters
Bia' gwiya
Eagle
Salmon are:
A) Carnivores
B) Omnivores
C) Vegetarians
B) Omnivores
What part of the Camas plant do we eat?
The bulb
Bands were identified by
The areas they traveled by the food they hunted or gathered.
Boi'hoi'goy-
Sagebrush people
Baa'
water
Salmon life span is:
3-7 years
Where do camas grow?
Marshy areas
Canada and Mexico. We didn't have borders like today.
Duku'deka-
Mountain Sheep eaters
doya' baingwi
mountain trout
Name a species of salmon.
Teacher judges: chinook, chum, coho, sockeye, steelhead and pink
Shoshone word for Camas:
Basigo' or pasi'go
Name a food that we hunted or gathered during the summer.
Teacher judges
What does Daza mean?
Summer
agi
salmon
Sho-Bans harvest these two types of salmon:
What looks exactly like a camas, but white?
Death Camas
Coyote and the Fish Basket: what did coyote accidently create when the fish basket spilled?
Rivers and river dams.
What does gwaha'den mean?
Antelope
basi'go
camas
What does anadromous mean?
It means they migrate from the ocean for fresh water to spawn.
Why did Bannocks go to war in 1878?
They were outraged that farmers let pigs destroy the prairie.
Name one of the Dams created by Coyote.
Idaho Falls, Twin Falls, American Falls, Shoshone Falls
Name the 3 ways to say buffalo.
Bozene, newe guchuu, dasi'bo
yaha'
rockchuck
What does dommo' agi mean?
It refers to steelhead, who come up the river in the fall and spring.
Which plant is causing the new war over the Camas Prairie?
Garrison Creeping Meadow
What is a seasonal round?
A pattern of moving from one location to another in order to gather food and other resources.
At the end of summer- these berries are ready to be harvested.
Chokecherries or donambi'
Izzapeh
Coyote
Name 3 ways that we hunted salmon:
Spearing
Nets
Fishing Weirs
Fishing trap/basket
The Shoshone-Bannock view the Garrison Creeping Meadow Foxtail as:
Critical threat to the Camas Prairie