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Shoshone-Bannock History in Idaho PART I OF II: 2008's historic Idaho Democratic Convention, held in Boise, ID, June 12-14, invited Idaho Native American Tribal members from the Shoshone-Bannock/Fort Hall, Shoshone-Paiute/Duck Valley, Nez Perce, and Coeur D'Alene tribal communities to take an active part in the convention activities. On June 12th, the Idaho AFL-CIO hosted a Democratic picnic for convention goers. Mr. Ted Howard, Cultural Resource Director, Duck Valley, spoke to picnic participants about the Shoshone-Paiute-Bannock history in the Boise Valley area. 9:49 minutes.
Part II-Grand Entry, Flag Ceremony and Recessional All convention tribal members participated in the grand entry at the beginning of the June 13th Idaho Democratic Convention gathering followed by a flag ceremony and presentation by Mr. Lee Juan Tyler, Council Member, Shoshone-Bannock/Fort Hall community. Fort Hall and Duck Valley singers and drummers played songs for the grand entry, flag ceremony and recessional.
9:59 minutes
7 Generations Elder Orin Lyons talks about preparing for the next 7 generations. 8:43 minutes
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QUESTION: Can you tell me what cultural and religious significance the pronghorn antelope has for Native Americans in the West? (I know the answer will have to be general but if you have examples from different tribes that would be great!).
? ~Submitted by Hans S.
Answer: Although nearly everyone is aware of the buffalo's vast numbers in pre-settlement times, few realize that pronghorns (often called antelope in the western states, although the are not a true antelope) equalled and perhaps even exceeded the bison. Immense pronghorn herds-an estimated 40 million; some say as many as 70 million-mingled with untold numbers of bison and deer, filling the American West from the shortgrass prairies of the western Great Plains, to Southwestern deserts, to the midgrass of eastern Nebraska.
As late as the 1870s, a train passenger described a herd of pronghorns that stretched for seventy miles, containing an estimated one million animals. At the time when Lewis and Clark made their way to the Pacific, the pronghorn's range was enormous, stretching west of the Mississippi River to California, north to Manitoba, and south nearly all the way to Mexico City.
Just about all the tribes within it's range hunted the pronghorn for meat, except the Apache, who believed it should never be hunted. ...Read more about pronghorns and native americans.
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