Western Shoshone in the Springtime

They hunted for groundhogs, ground squirrels, and sagehens using chokecherry limb bows and arrowheads made from bone, flint, obsidian, and hardwoods. They also caught the smaller game animals with stick traps and net snares. With sharp digging sticks, they gathered wild onions, morning-glory roots, sego roots, bitterroot, new cattail stems and roots, camas roots, wild asparagus, and wild carrots to eat.

Medicine plants were used for colds, sores, rheumatism, and other ailments of the body.