John Wesley Powell. Their language was referred to as MonoPaviotso by the anthropologist A. L. Kroeber. They were also designated as “digger” Indians to distinguish them from the horse-riding peoples of the plains.
Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, Cary C Collins ... Suggested Readings: Gregory R. Campbell, “The Lemhi Shoshoni: Ethnogenesis, Sociological Transformations, and the Construction of a Tribal Nation,” American Indian Quarterly 25, no.
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Over the centuries the Indians of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana have adapted their lifeways to their region’s radically different environments-an evolution that in some tribes continues to this day, as they conform to the ...
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from California to British Columbia.