Banakwut

The Banakwut are the Bannock, originally a Northern Paiute people whose speech belonged to the Western Numic branch but whose way of life drew them into the Northern Shoshone world across southern Idaho and western Wyoming. By 1730 horses had reached northern trade networks, and in the mid-eighteenth century several mounted bands broke away to form the Bannock, ranging along the Bannock Trail through Montana to hunt buffalo on the northern plains.

In their Snake River homeland they fished for salmon, made tule-reed rafts and salmon-skin bags, and wintered in buffalo-hide tipis. Mounted and well armed, they grew dangerous to outsiders: in 1814 the chief called The Horse opened a long campaign of raids against Boise River fur traders that ended only in 1832.