Seneca

Bear Valley lies beneath the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon, near the headwaters of the Silvies River. Northern Paiute and Cayuse homelands included this country, where people hunted rabbits and birds, caught trout, and gathered roots and seeds. Mountain slopes and the sheltered valley offered different resources through the year. Farther north, the upper John Day watershed was also shared by Plateau peoples and Northern Paiute communities, whose relationships could be tense as well as cooperative.