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Along with coastal British Columbia and California, and the Colorado Plateau, Montana remains one of the culturally richest parts of aboriginal America. Speakers of Salishan and Siouan, Kutenaian, Algonkian and Uto-Azetcan languages converge there, and the boreal forest cultures meet the cultures of the Rocky Mountains and those of the high plains. . . . aboriginal trade routes led from the Bitterroot, the Big Hole, and the Yellowstone to the west coast, the Ohio River Valley, the Pueblos and beyond. Even now, after centuries of destruction, it is one of the places where aboriginal oral literature remains alive. Few white Montanans have shared in this indigenous cultural matrix. . . But the power of the place persists, drawing to it people, stories, languages and songs from around the world. Robert Bringhurst
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