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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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Local Mammals Whitetail Deer
American Bison
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Mountain Caribou
Moose
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Color in the mammals that match the number
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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