Walla Tribe Research Paper

My tribe is the Walla Walla. We lived on some of the most beautiful land in Native America. We lived in the Plateau region and our land was and still is beautiful. Fast flowing rivers, blue lakes and green forests. We have warm summers and cold winters. We lived near the Snake and Columbia river, chalk full of salmon and fish for eating, and the blue mountains. The blue mountains are home to the mythic Dwarf people. They say if you go hiking in the Blue Mountain Range you can hear they calling, but I never have.
We are one of the powerful tribes of the Plateau Culture area. We lived a semi-nomadic (no-ma-tic) lifestyle, which is where you move around to follow the food. We fished, hunted, or gathered wild plants. Our name, Walla Walla means "Many Waters" because of the Columbia and Snake rivers that ran through our homeland. The introduction of the horse in the 1750's changed our lifestyle drastically and many of the people traveled to the Great Plains to hunt buffalo. Through this, we adopted the use of buffalo hides as a material in tepees and clothing. The grasslands of our tribe's territory enabled the people to maintain large herds and become horse breeders and traders.
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The first contact came through the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805. The explorers were warmly welcomed by Chief Yellepit. The village was only about 15 lodges. It was situated on the Columbia River near the mouth of the Walla Walla River. Communication was possible by a Shoshone woman Sacagawea, who was the expedition's guide and interpreter. They promised to spend a few days on their way back as they couldn't on there way to the pacific ocean. Later in the middle of spring the explorers and spent several days with the Walla Walla and gifts were exchanged and goods were traded. Lewis and Clark left the tribe with a peace medal engraved with a portrait of Thomas Jefferson and a small American

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