Shoshones

Noted in history for a direct linkage to Sacajawea, the Shoshone people are more than the family to one of the Native American’s most famous women. Although Sacajawea was a vital element of the Lewis and Clark expedition, she would have been no help without the knowledge she possessed—this knowledge being inherent in any Shoshone. Eurocentric explorers, who provided many of the documentation about this culture, misunderstood the Shoshone people. Nonetheless, the Shoshone were a content people living in scattered communities that were not involved in aggressive trade, but obtained enough resources to allow for the survival of its population.
The population of the Shoshone people was spread across large spans of land in the West. Their community was divided into three sects: the Western Shoshones, the Eastern Shoshones and the Northern Shoshones. The Western Shoshones resided on land in northwestern Utah, Death Valley in California and Nevada. The Northern and Eastern settlemen...