Question

According to Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s autobiography Life Among the Piutes, which items had symbolic significance for young Paiutes who were coming into adulthood?

>spring flowers
>pine tree boughs
>arrowheads
>a hunters first kill

Answer 1

Spring flowers is correct

Answer 2

The correct answer is spring flowers. The Paiutes had a special spring Flower Festival, and all of the young girls were named after flowers. Every spring, each girl would go and search for the flower after which she was named, and talk about its blooming, which symbolized her own blooming.