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where did the Spokane live?
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The Spokane tribes lived in the area of land centered around the
Spokane river. Their permanent villages were primarily located on the Spokane
and the Columbia.
But they used the backcountry for hunting and summer camping.
Starting at the point where the Spokane River meets the Columbia,
their lands would include a boundary going up to Hunters, over to Deer Park and then over
to Mount Spokane. From there the boundary would go South to Rosalia, over to
Ritzville, North to Peach and from there back to the Columbia.
In their villages on the Spokane River, the Spokane tribes were
located at the upper end of salmon country, as the salmon could not swim up and over Spokane falls.
The present-day Spokane Indian Reservation is completely on land that
was part of the original area inhabited by the Spokanes, but it is just a small part of the original
three million acres or so that formed their aboriginal land.
(1) Wynecoop, David C.,Children of the Sun,
Wellpinit: 1969, p. 7
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