The Plateau People

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The Plateau People

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Bibliography
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Where They Lived

• Central WA
• West of Rocky Mountains
• In Columbia Plateau

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The Climate

• Dry most of the time
• Very cold in winter
• Super warm in summer
• Continental climate
• Not a lot of rain

Say no to rain!!!
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Vegetation

• Grassy lands
• Some grasslands go on for miles
• Not a lot of trees
• A lot of berries bushes (also used for food)

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Kinds of Shelter
I want to go home!!!!!!

• Pit house-House in the ground
• Teepee-house made from animal skin
• Long hoses in all seasons but winter
• Walls Made from Tule rushes

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Types of Food

• Berries-From the berries bush
• Salmon, rabbit, mountain goat, deer
• Smoked salmon
• Dried fruit

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Transportation

• They used horses-most people owned horses
• They also walked

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Natural Resources

• They used animal skin for clothing
• Trees for houses, beds, plates, and so on
• Animal skin for teepees also

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All of the tribes

• Cayuse
• Chelan
• Coeur dAlene
• Columbia
• Colville
• Kalispel
• Kittitas
• Yakima

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Tools for Fishing and Hunting

• Spears
• Traps
• Bows and arrows
• Atlatls
• Net

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Skills Needed for Fishing and Hunting

• Need to be smart
• Aim
• Need to be strong
• Need to be quiet
• Patients

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Knowledge Required for Fishing and Hunting

• Know what animals are attracted to
• Where animals are popular
• What to use to catch them
• What is poisonous

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What the People did to be good Stewards of their
Environment

• Did not use more than they needed
• Used every pat of the animal

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How we can be good Stewards of our Environment

• We can be more resourceful
• Use more eco friendly things
• Know how much we need

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Our Transportation

• Cars
• Motorcycle
• Trains
• Planes

Get into the car.
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Our food

• Meat
• Bread
• Cheese
• Lettuce
• Bananas
• Some of the examples are above

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Extra

• Most plateau people did not live in teepees
• Their housing improved over the years
• They used fresh buffalo hide to glue things
  together

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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.