CHAPTER III.

COLUMBIANS.

Habitat of the Columbian Group--Physical Geography--Sources of Food Supply--Influence of Food and Climate--Four extreme Classes--Haidahs--Their Home--Physical Peculiarities-- Clothing--Shelter--Sustenance--Implements--Manufactures-- Arts--Property--Laws--Slavery--Women--Customs--Medicine-- Death--The Nootkas--The Sound Nations--The Chinooks--The Shushwaps--The Salish--The Sahaptins 150