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Tribe traditions What did they eat? Where did they live? How did they dress? Famous people Contributions How big is the tribe? Extra information Quiz Bibliography About the author
Tribe traditons
The Paiutes gathered all together for big time.
They also gathered for funerals. They gathered for something called
yaxape.
What did they eat?
They ate big and small animals. They also ate berries and pine nuts for chewing gum. They ate birds ,reptiles ,fish, and insects.
Where did they live
They lived in cone shaped wickiups and lived in southern Utah and parts of Arizona ,California and parts of Nevada.
How did they dress?
They dressed in animal skin shirts and pants. They wore skin from big and small animals.
Famous people Some famous people of the Paiute Indians are
Paiute Jim ,me-kwi-uk and kwi-toos.the Paiutes did not have chiefs that made the decisions the chiefs just had suggestions. They had a group of people that made decisions.
Contributions
The Paiutes had been taken advantage of by other tribes of Indians.
They helped the Mormon pioneers survive in the wild and find food
How big is the tribe?
The Paiute Indians tribe had 900 people in the tribe.
In Nevada they only had 65 people in the tribe.
Extra information about the tribe
The tribe had a big massacre It was called the mountain meadow massacre. Still to this day forward Paiutes swear that their
ancestors did not have a part the massacre.
Quiz for the audience.
Did the Paiutes swim to catch fish? Did they know about anywhere else in
the world except where they lived? Did they know that they were on just a
small part of the earth?
Bibliogrophy
Utah http://historytogo.utah.gov/history to go;
History for kids; http://www.ilovehistory.utah.gov/
Paiute Indians; http://utahpaiutes.org/