The Plateau People

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The Plateau People

• By 25

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Where They Live

• They lived on the Columbia
• East of Cascades

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Climate

• Continental
• Cold winter
• dry

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Vegetation

• Grass
• Tule rush
• Camas
• Trees
• shrubs

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Houses

• Teepees
• Pit houses
• Long houses

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Food

• Animals
• Salmon
• Roots
• birds

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Transportation

• Horses
• Feet

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Natural recourses to Meet Basic Needs

• Rock
• Grass
• Wood
• Plants
• Salmon
• Animals
• Water

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Tribes

• Chelan
• Kittitas
• Spokane
• Yakima
• Metho
• Wenatchee

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Tools

• Fishing hooks made of bone
• Arrows made of rock and wood
• Spears
• nets

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skills

• How to use and make supplies for hunting and
  fishing
• Using camouflage

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knowledge

• Locations for hunting and fishing

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Respecting the environment

• Used every bit on an animal
• Only took what they needed

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Strategies We Can Use From The Native Americans

• Take only what we need from the store
• Eat all that you take

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Bibliography

• Pelz, Ruth. Discovering Washington. 1st. Layton,
  UT Peregrine Smith Book, 1997.

Pelz, Ruth. The Washington Adventure. 1. Layton,
UT Gibbs Smith, 2004.