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Questions and Answers about the Spokane Indians
 

What did they look like?
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Both men and women braided their hair.

The Chinook practiced flattening of the infant's head as sign of free birth.

Surprisingly the Flathead, in spite of their names, never shared this custom. One theory is that fattening of the forehead resulted in a rounded appearance of the head as seen from the front. The Flatheads, because they did not flatten the forehead, had a flat appearance when seen from the front.










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