what was the shoshones religion?

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there believes

Answer 1

I did a google search of: Wikipedia, Shoshone Religion...tons of info there. There's a nice map of the Shoshone Basin in Wyoming...to show you exactly where they originated from.

They believed that the animal spirits Coyote and Wolf were the first beings on Earth, and that Coyote was the creator god and Wolf was his trickster brother.

One of the creation stories said that Coyote took a long journey to where the sun rose, and found a wife. He had many children, which were all of the Indian tribes. He placed all of his children in a closed basket, and set back to the Great Basin. On his way back, he opened the basket and all of his children fell out all over the Americas. When he got home, the only two tribes left were the Shoshone and the Paiute. At once they fought each other, but Coyote kicked them apart and told them that they were his only children left, and that they would beat all of the other tribes, because they were the best.