The Walla Walla Tribe{Brock} B

This is a tasty looking salmon that the was the main source of food for the Walla Walla Indians.

The Walla Walla tribe had many different foods to eat. Such as: roots,like Koush roots, camas, bulbs, and their main source, Salmon! I didn't even know that you could eat roots, camas, and bulbs! They also ate many more things but rarely could even find or catch. Like elk, berries, steelhead trout, deer, bear, mountain goat, groundhog, coyote, raccoon, fox, porcupine, weasel, beaver, and lastly hare.

These are Walla Walla Indian children playing with each other
  1. Men, women, and (sort of) children all helped out the tribe in some way women usually wove baskets, cooked fish, gathered plants and food, and helped men fish. Children either helped gather food or just played with their toys like dolls or tops. And men fished or hunted and helped women raise their kids.
This is an example of some Walla Walla Indian clothes.

The Walla Walla tribe had many different types of clothing like dresses, pants, hats, and shirts. There was also a lot of different materials used to make them, such as many different plants, animal skins, goat hair, red paint, sagebush bark, and buffalo hide. You may also be wondering "Who makes the clothing?" And my answer to that question is the women of the tribe.

This is a picture of an above ground summer and spring tepee.

The walla walla tribe had many different shelters. The first one I'll tell you about is the pit houses. They were basically all made of logs. They were built underground for the cold and brisk winters. But there was of course also summer and spring shelters built too. The summer houses were like tepees, built above ground made of mostly animal skin and tule reeds. Mainly the man would build them and women would maintain.

These are fireworks which the Walla Walla Indians obviously did not have it is just a picture to show celebration.

One time a man named Yellepit came to the land owned by the Walla Walla Indians owned and he asked to trade with them and they said yes because they could provide all of the resources. But right after he said yes Yellepit welcomed all of his people into the Walla Walla land, which the Walla Walla didn't like. The tribe asked Yellepit to leave but he wouldn't. The Walla Walla tribe was furious they eventually had to threaten them and that really worked. The Tribe was happy and celebrating with singing, dancing, and of course gift-giving.

Created with images by Fæ - "Hook Walla Walla, a Mojave Indian with a stick through his nose, ca.1900 (CHS-1908)" • liveinlondon_ - "salmon norway sea ​​fish" • Arian Zwegers - "Sasan Gir, village boys" • Larry1732 - "Santa Fe Indian Market" • bimbatoe - "wigwam tepee tipi" • bayasaa - "Fireworks"

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