Northwest Native Americans

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Northwest Native Americans

• Plateau Tribes

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The Plateau Indians worshiped Puha as their
god.They also thought that shaman another god
would heel them.The lapwa culture thought that
many gods would give them strength or power over
all the world.The games they played were the
stick game,racing horses,diving and tossing
beaver teeth.Wyakin was there god to them.
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Celebrations / Holidays
In the beginning of winter , the smaller tribes
regrouped for the winter camps. These camps were
located by rivers lakes and streams witch could
pay for water and shelter. Most of winter was
spent watching ceremonies, visiting and trading
things of high expense to show how much money
they have.The search for a guardian spirit began
when a child reaches the age of puberty.The
salish word for guardian spirit is sunmesh. The
plateau people decorated their cloths and
fathered head dresses for celebrations and
holidays. The time ball was a calendar in memory
of events and happenings were recorded with knots
and beads.
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The Native Americans had two houses one was
called a pit house and the other was called
earth loges. Well the pit houses were for in the
winter and sometimes they used buffalo for their
houses.Also in the pit houses they also dug
shelter for old people and kids. Now they had
earth loges for the summer and also they used
woven mats on a frame.Also in the summer plateau
people would make there houses out of framework
and slender poles. Also sometimes their house
were 15 wide and 60 feet long. Also some mats
were for certain house hold needs. The poles
they used were flat on the bottum and a small
opening at the top. Some of their houses were
made out of willows, reeds, grasses, and mud.
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Names of tribes
Some of the Native Americans that lived in
Washington and on the plateau were the Palouse
tribe, the Kalispel Tribe, the Spokane Tribe, the
Klickitat Tribe, the Modoc Tribe, the Nez Perce
Tribe, the Sanpoil Tribe, the Coeur d Alene
Tribe, the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribe,
the Colville Tribe, the Yakima Tribe,the Cayuse
Tribe,the Klamath Tribe,the Amatila, Tribe,the
Walla Walla Tribe, and the Kootenai Tribe.
One of the people in one tribe
A women from another tribe
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Food
The Native Americans had a hard time finding
food.They gathered food in the old way.They
traveled over the mountains to gather food.Root
and berries which we gather for our family
needs.They stored foods such as
roots,nuts,berries,fish and meats.Brown camas (
an onion like root) was eaten whole or cooked
with meat or fish.White camas was ground up for
flour.
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lands
Lands for the plateau only went to the Cascade
Mountain to the Columbia River.
Land was clamed by Yakima's was 10.8 million
areas .
The lands were used by plateau Indians four
hunting.
Eastern washing ton was home of the plateau
people.
Plateau people had rots,barreys
,fish,dear,elk,and also antelope .
The plateau people only toke from thar lands.
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The Plateau Native Americans had ceremonies and
holidays such as deaths, new-born and reaching
the age of puberty.At the parties they would
decorate their clothes and make headdresses.The
search for a guardian spirit began when a child
reaches the age of puberty.When a child reaches
puberty it is said that the boy becomes a man.The
salish word for guardian spirit is
Sunmesh.Some celebrations have two tribes
come together and socialize with each other
called Pow Wows.Also berry picking and root
digging was apart of celebrations.Tribes would
join other tribes in one general area.They also
made Ti-pis Tee-Pees for a big part of
holidays.And at every birth they would give the
new-born a strange name.Sometimes at celebrations
they would tell stories
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Like Storm boy and Raven.They also decorated
theyre horses too.So that was it bye. Oh yeah
The End.
www.spokane tribe.com
www.nezperce.com
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Culture
The plateau Native Americans play the stick game
other rations included of throwing stakes,
racing horses, diving and hosing bearer tooth ore
bone dice.They work i0n order not to lose their
work if they did not work in order they would
lose their work so they work in order all the
time they did not get that much money so they
wore poor .
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clothing
During the winter they wore buffalo, elk, and
deer skins. And they wore moccasins,with fur in
winter.they got leather shoes from the animals
that they killed.Puget sound women made their own
yarn for weaving and had looms which were made of
wood. The plateau people made blankets out of
animal fur.In the winter they wore moccasins.