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Questions and Answers about the Spokane Indians
 

What animals were there?
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Because the climate was very dry, there were are not a lot of animals in the area. There were deer and elk in the mountains and salmon and trout in the rivers. What made the Plateau area different is that even though the land was very dry, the rivers were full and teeming with salmon and other fish.

There were a small number of buffalo in the area, but nothing like the vast herds that were on the Great Plains of Montana. The last recorded buffalo was seen in 1830. After they began to use horses, the Plateau Indians would cross over into the Montana plains in order to hunt buffalo.










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