Lifestyles of the Plateau

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Lifestyles of the Plateau

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Where They Live

• They lived East of the Cascades on the Columbia
  Plateau

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Climate

• Continental climate
• Its warm and dry and has cold winters

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vegetation

• Trees
• Bushes
• grass
• Tule
• Camas

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Houses

• Wood poles covered in tule
• Pit houses in the winter

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Food

• Salmon
• Deer
• Rabbit
• Mountain goats
• Birds
• Nuts and berries

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Transportation

• Horses
• foot

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Natural Resources Used

• Plants
• Wood
• Animals
• Rocks
• water

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Tribes

• Cayuse
• Chelan
• Columbia
• Collville
• Okanogan
• Spokane

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Tools

• Spear
• Net
• Fishing pole
• Bow and arrow

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Skills

• How to use and make weapons
• How to camouflage
• How to fish

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Knowledge

• Locations of water sources
• When animals are awake

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How they were stewards of their environment

• They only took what they needed
• They did not pollute

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Strategies that we can use that the Native
Americans did

• Take only what you need from the store
• Eat every thing on your plate

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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.