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Questions and Answers about the Spokane Indians
 

1600-1800 : changes from the Plains Indians
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After 1700 the main influences on the Plateau Indian Culture came the Plains Indians living East of the Rocky Mountains.

The Indians started using horses. It is estimated that horses first arrived in the Palouse in 1730. Horses were brought to America by the Spanish settlements in Mexico, and their use migrated Northwards among the Indian tribes in the West and mid-West Plains. The Plateau Indians probably first received horses from Shoshone Indians in the central Idaho region.

Early Europeans, who began to visit the region in the early 1800s, wrote that tribes such as the Nez Percé, Cayuse, Wallawalla, and Flathead had many horses. They had more horses than the tribes of the northern Plains.

The horse, like the car in the last century, had a deep effect on Plateau Indian Culture.










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December 24, 2004
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