Native American tribes of the Columbia Plateau

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The Native American tribes of the Columbia Plateau are Indigenous peoples of the inland Pacific Northwest whose cultures, economies, and spiritual traditions have long been centered on the region’s river systems, salmon fisheries, and plateau landscapes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf IndigenousPeoplesCollective
culturalRegion
engageIn culturalRevitalization
fisheriesCoManagement
languageRevitalization
hasCulturalPractice intertribalTrade
rootFeasts
salmonCeremonies
seasonalRound
sweatLodgeCeremonies
hasHistoricalImpactFrom Columbia River damConstruction NERFINISHED
U.S.IndianTreatiesOfThe19thCentury
reservationSystem
hasKeyEconomicActivity berryHarvesting
gathering
hunting
riverineTrade
rootDigging
salmonFishing
hasKeyGeographicFeature Columbia River NERFINISHED
Fraser River NERFINISHED
Snake River NERFINISHED
plateauLandscapes
hasKeySpiritualFocus plateauLandscapes
riverSystems
salmon
includesTribe Cayuse NERFINISHED
Coeur d’Alene NERFINISHED
Colville NERFINISHED
Flathead (Salish) NERFINISHED
Kalispel NERFINISHED
Kootenai NERFINISHED
Nez Perce NERFINISHED
Okanagan (Syilx) NERFINISHED
Shuswap (Secwepemc) NERFINISHED
Spokane Tribe of Indians NERFINISHED
Umatilla NERFINISHED
Walla Walla NERFINISHED
Warm Springs tribes NERFINISHED
Yakama NERFINISHED
locatedIn Canada
Columbia Plateau NERFINISHED
Inland Pacific Northwest NERFINISHED
North America
United States of America
surface form: United States
traditionalSubsistenceBase anadromousFishRuns
berries
deer
elk
rootsSuchAsCamas
traditionalTerritoriesInclude eastern Washington
northeastern Oregon
northern Idaho
southern British Columbia NERFINISHED
western Montana NERFINISHED
usesLanguageFamily Interior Salish languages NERFINISHED
Kutenai language NERFINISHED
Plateau Penutian languages NERFINISHED

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