Kalispell Tribe Coloring Book

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Local Plants Camas

Western red cedar

Huckleberry

Western White Pine Plants are a very valuable resource, for food and medicine and tradition.

Local Carnivores

Match the right paw print to the animal

Wolverine

Bl a ck B e a r

C o u g er

ciĹĄps

Help the bear get to the berries

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End

Local Mammals Whitetail Deer

American Bison

1 2

Mountain Caribou

Moose

3

4

Color in the mammals that match the number

3 2

1

4

Mammals, like deer and elk, were hunted for their meat to be used as food, for their hides to be used as shelter and clothing, and their bones to be used as tools.

westslope cutthroat trout

Chinook Salmon Bulltrout Fish were once caught with bone hooks, spears, harpoons, nets, waterfall baskets, weirs, and even bow and arrows.

Trace the Salish words

Earth Oven

Food layer Layers of red-hot rocks (heat element)

Lower layer of green plant material (packing) Fire (reduced to ashes and glowing coals by the time the oven is sealed)

Earthen cap (adapted from Thoms 1989)

Food was cooked in many ways (smoked, dried, and baked).

Archaeologists often find earthen ovens which were used to cook camas and meat

Artifacts Stone tools, like arrowheads and knives, can be analyzed for protein residue to find out what animals they were used for hunting or processing.

Arrowheads were made from local stone, and from traded obsidian as far away as Wyoming

Search for the artifact terms

Canoe Artifact Knives

Stone Fish hook Tools

Archaeology Arrowhead Fish weight

Excavation Careful digging or excavation of soil reveals important details about the past, such as what people ate, where they lived, and what they did hundreds and thousands of years of ago

Find all the archaeological tools

Trowel

Shovel

Mattock

Hand Brush

microscope

Pend Oreille Valley