Clothing
The woman on the plateau used to make clothing for their families, which included dresses, leggings, shirts, jackets, and robes. They also used tanned hides, grasses, and softened bark.
Men's Clothings
Men wore leggings made from animal hides or grasses. Their shirts were also made of animal skin. They used dye from clay or plants. Plateau men also wore breech cloths and moccasins.
Women's Clothing
The women mostly wore skirts and dress. The dresses were also decorated with bead work and long fringes. Detail shells, ocher paint, porcupine quills, seeds, and feathers were also used as decoration. It was common to paint symbols on clothing that represented some object. Most of their clothing told stories with their pictures.
Headdresses
Headdresses usually represented the status within their community of a person. For ceremonies there were more elaborate headdresses decorate with beads and feathers. Animal skin or fur was used to protect against the cold.
Transportation
The Plateau people had access to many natural waterways. To take advantage of all the rivers and lakes in the area, the people built canoes for traveling. Wooden dugout canoes “sturgeon-nosed' or 'ram-shaped' canoes were built. The shape was designed to keep water out of the canoe in rapids and large bodies of water. Dugout canoes were made of either red cedar or cottonwood trees, or bark from pine or birch. Canoes were mostly used on lakes. However, with the sturgeon-nosed design, the people were also able to travel on some of the more turbulent rivers in the area.Even horses in the 1730's were used in the Canadian Plateau region from the south. Horses were used as pack animals for carrying people. Dogs were also used as pack animals, and for hunting deer.In winter, the Plateau people used snowshoes to travel through the deep snow.