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language that is spoken around Vancouver and Victoria on
the coast, and the Kootenay have a language all their own.
The culture of this last tribe resembles that of the plains Indians;

SCALE OF MILES

100 5O 2 100

Sketch map showing approximate distribution of Cordillera tribes in 17252A.D.

it actually lived, indeed, on the eastern side of the Rockies
until the eighteenth century, when the Blackfoot drove it over
the mountains.