Show V -- V January 1863 at the Bear River Continuedfmm page 18 pattens to meet the reality of the hunter-gather- er times tuffs became aa integral put of their yearly cycle Heaton says nts me cnurcn Hmn g IJi ivy house for handouts they’d show up on door Heps and demand food Sometimes they would trade skins far foodstuffs or break hones for the pioneers But moat often they were aeddiig free food which they considered payoffs or taxes for losing their land This new style of food acquisition did not prevent mem Kroni cotwinuim inctr mn ' tional migratory lifestyle They simply had a new angle to play "They worked the Mormon set-Heaton says They’d show in dm up quiag and want food" food on hand expecting that Ipn fi! Even after their devastating defeat the Shoshones continued to travel through Cache Yriley demanding food as they trial to maintain their existence But the times finally caught up with them Heaton wrote in an article in Utah Historical Quarterly: “ By 1869 Cache Vriley natives m began to demonstrate a willingness to begin farming if the government provided assistance Acceptance of a sedentary agricultural existence would force Shoshones to abandon their mobile lifestyle for permanent residence on reservations This signaled that Shoshones were resigned to the loss of their lands and recognized that survival depended on their ability to make yet another cultural adaptation" Most of them ended up living permanently on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation near Blackfoot Idaho Photo courtesy of USU 8pscW Coisctfons Shoshones would cone soon enough One estimate suggests that Shoshones were consuming as Depmbtioo iueveued m mnpp and mate settlers moved into the crop produced on Cache VUley farms This represented a significant drain of the resources of the settlers who themselves were facing a real threat of famine in the eaily 1860s The Indians began to rely even more on raiding and other threats Heaton says and tumors of a massive Indian uprising in the East added to the hysteria of die times The climactic moment came in -- " TODB FULL UIIE DEALER OF HOODS STE TIQEBSHABK TBOTBILT & JUCTIC CAT t omsD Full Una of motorcycle A 100 Financing cveUsblo 9M2M222I MSfflg £2f 240 EL 800 IV CENTERVILLE UT 3705 8 250 IV OQDEEJ UT (bohinid Notvgato rlalQ §322£ : 801-292-88- 11 Page 19 |