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Tobacco Plains lies in Ktunaxa country near the Kootenay River, where open ground in the Rocky Mountain Trench is enclosed by forest and mountains. Its people belong to the Upper Ktunaxa, whose homeland reached from the river valleys toward the plains beyond the Rockies. Hunting parties crossed the mountains in pursuit of bison, while the rivers and lakes nearer home supplied fish and waterfowl. Ktunaxa travellers used distinctive bark canoes with sturgeon-shaped ends on the waterways of their homeland.