Kaska Indians

Location

• Lives in modern day Colombia and Southern Yukon

Diet

• Mainly ate Caribou, Buffalo, Mountain Goat and Smaller Game

Homes

• Homes were A frame lodges
• Covered in sod, brush, and animal skin
• Most People used simple lean-tos in the summer

Government

• Made of four divisions that were constructed of independent regional bands
• Their goverment had no fixed membership
• The local band memberships were provided with the best hunters
• Women occasionally having important leadership postions

Religion

• Some of the tribes within the Kaska from birth were taken from birth
• Apart from the community in fear that the spirits would be contaminated
• In thier late childhood boys began training for vision quest 
• Women were secluded and observed various taboos during menstural
• Periods

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