Indian tribes of Washington, Oregon & Idaho provides a comprehensive ethnographic and geographic catalog of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the vastly diverse environments of the inland and coastal Pacific Northwest. Swanton meticulously maps the historical territories of these tribes against the region's formidable topography, contrasting the marine-oriented cultures sustained by the resource-rich estuaries and temperate rainforests of the Pacific seaboard with the riverine societies dependent upon the massive Columbia and Snake River watersheds. The narrative further details how the severe geographic divides of the Cascade Range and the rugged Bitterroot Mountains dictated distinct seasonal migration routes and trade networks across the semi-arid inland plateaus. By anchoring specific tribal lineages and linguistic groups to precise river confluences, coastal bays, and mountain valleys, the book vividly illustrates how the deep physical contours of the region inherently shaped the cultural borders and survival strategies of its earliest inhabitants.

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Reprint of selections from the author's The Indian tribes of North America, published in 1952 by the U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, which was issued as Bulletin no. 145 of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology and as Document no. 383 of the U.S. House of Representatives

Reprint of selections from the author's The Indian tribes of North America, published in 1952 by the U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, which was issued as Bulletin no. 145 of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology and as Document no. 383 of the U.S. House of Representatives