Tukudika

The Tukudika, or Sheep Eaters, were mountain Shoshone people whose homeland included Yellowstone and the neighbouring ranges. Bighorn sheep supplied meat and skins, as well as horn and sinew for powerful hunting bows. At Obsidian Cliff, families quarried volcanic glass with bone tools and worked it into arrowheads. Tukudika hunters also built stone and timber traps for fish. In 1835 the trapper Osborne Russell met a small Tukudika group in the Lamar Valley.