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Questions and Answers about the Spokane Indians
 

Did they live in towns?
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The Plateau Indians did have permanent villages. These villages were generally located on waterways and particularly at rapids and other places where fish were abundant during the winter season. River villages were permanent winter quarters and could at least temporarily lodge several hundred people. A Kalispel village, for example, numbered 300-400 and a Yakima village as many as 2,000.

Each village had an upland area for hunting. And while the villages belonged to the individual tribes, these uplands were mostly open for people from other villages as well.

There were also permanent or semi-permanent summer camps for hunting and root gathering in mountain valleys.










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