However, buffalo were never the chosen game animal of the Ktunaxa. They preferred the hides and meat of mountain animals like big horn sheep, elk, moose, and woodland caribou. Known as the “fish trap people” or “the fish eaters” by neighboring tribes, the Ktunaxa balanced their diet of fish with red meat and vegetation.

Food of the Ktunaxa The food of the First Nations of the Plateau manly consisted of fish and vegetation. Some of the salmon they had to first catch was slow cooked over a fire and stored underground pits lined with birch bark for the winter provisions.