The Shoshone

The Shoshone were a Native American tribe. They spoke Shosoni. It is a Uto-Aztec language. Uto-Aztec was a language that was in western U.S.A and Mexico.

History
The people who lived in the Area before the Shoshone were called Paiute. The Shoshone built Houses high up. As high as 10,000 feet! The Shoshone were dived into three main groups.

                   Eastern Shoshone : Wyoming, Colorado & Montana
                  Western Shoshone: Oregon, Idaho and Utah
                   Northern Shoshone: Idaho, Wyoming and Utah

The Eastern Shoshone crossed the rocky mountains and settled in the Great Plains. But then they were pushed away by many tribes like the Blackfoot. Some of these Became the Comanche. Then the Americans came. The Shoshone had lived with Spanish and Mexicans but the Americans were different. The First were Explores like Lewis and Clark, Then the Mormons came. They Settled in Utah. They made Peaceful terms with the Shoshone. Many more whites came because of the Gold rush in California. But then the United States of America Army came. They came and took land. They gave land to the Eastern Shoshone though. Pocatello and other chiefs send raiders on the whites roads like the Oregon trail. The Mormons gave them food. But then the U.S army interfered and the Shoshone were starving. They attacked white farms and stole. The United States of America Army fought and stopped the raids. The Shoshone gathered and stood ready to Fight the army. Pocatello ran away with his tribe before the Army got there. But other Shoshone tribes stayed and got massacred by the United States of America Army. This is know as the bear river massacre. The Rest of the Shoshone went into reservations. The U.S. Government gave rotten food and bad supplies to the Shoshone in the reservations. The Shoshone were dying from sickness and starvation. Pocatello took his tribe to the Mormons. The Shoshone tribe became Mormon. But other whites did not like the Shoshone in Utah and asked the United States of America Army to drive them out. They threatened to and Pocatello went back to his reservation. He died in 1884 on the reservation. The Shoshone continued to live in a terrible situation. They revolted and this led to the Bannock war. During the Early 1900's the Shoshone got American Citizenship. 

Pocatello

Pocatello was a Shoshone chief. He was born in Utah. He grew up with the name Tonaioza. He became a great warrior and chief. He still kept the name Tonaioza or Buffalo robe. Pocatello is what the whites called them. It meant road-not-to follow. But it was not Shoshone.    

sources: Civilopedia. wiki