Pohoko Ikkatee

The Snake River Plain is part of the homeland of the Northern Shoshone and Bannock. Their seasonal journeys took them between river fisheries, camas grounds and hunting country. Salmon were gathered along the Snake, while camas bulbs and other plants were collected for the winter. In the seventeenth century, Northern Paiute groups moving north from the Great Basin joined Shoshone people in pursuit of bison and became known as Bannock. After horses spread among them in the eighteenth century, large parties travelled east to hunt bison together.