Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau Culture area. This area is defined by the region in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples, the Sahaptian peoples, and several cultural isolates, Athapaskan outliers, and the Kootenai and Cayuse.
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Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau Culture area. This area is defined by the region in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples, the Sahaptian peoples, and several cultural isolates, Athapaskan outliers, and the Kootenai and Cayuse.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Smithsonian Institute, 1998, very good oversized hardback, clean interior, no owner's markings or underlining, covers are clean. Tight and square. Natural history.
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4to. xvi, 791, [1] pp. 100's illusts., photos, maps, text diagrams, tables. Gray cloth, red band, gilt lettering on spine (slight tide mark at lower fore-edge of a couple leaves, very minor soiling), still VG copy. First edition of this exhaustive volume in this historic set projected to be published in 20 volumes. This work examines the history, language and culture of the Shuswap, Lilloet, Thompson, Nicola, Northern Okanagan, Kootenai, Kalispel, Salishans, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Flathead, Pend d'Oreille, Nez Perce, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Yakima, Molala, Klamath, Modoc, Wasco, Wishram, and Cascades Indian tribes.
