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Sahaptin Fishing Terminology


Most tribes within the Columbia Basin are part of the Sahaptin linguistic stock. Reprinted from Nch'i-Wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land by Eugene Hunn, 1990. Courtesy of the University of Washington Press.