J 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.