Northwest Indians

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Northwest Indians

• By Anita, Collin, Taryn, Amanda, and Victoria

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Homes

• Northwest Indians lived in wooden homes. They
  used wood to make their houses because wood was
  plentiful in the northwest. The wood protected
  them from the wind and rain.
• Outside of each wooden lodge was a totem
  pole. The totem pole was considered a very
  important part of the lodges. Some lodges even
  had totem poles decorated on the inside beams of
  their homes. Each lodge had a different totem
  pole.

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Way Of Life

• Boys got married at sixteen or seventeen and
  girls got married at fourteen or fifteen
• They put personal in the grave with them
  
  
• Some kept slaves from warlike tribes made raids
  on villages are camps to capture young women and
  boys
• As salmon return generation after generation to
  spawn in Native rivers, so came Indians to
  ancestral fishing places

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Foods

• Makahs got their foods mostly by hunting and
  fishing, they ate beach whales and other seafood
  .
• Bella Coola hunted for food. They ate different
  kinds of animals.
• Chinooks were fishers so they ate mostly seafood.
• Tlingit were hunters, they ate lots of meats.

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Interesting Facts

1. The Chinooks were the best known traders of the
   Northwest coast.
2. The Nootka were once noted for their skill in
   hunting whales from graceful dugout canoes.
3. The northwest coast Indian lived in what is now
   Alaska along the pacific once down the coast to
   northern California.
4. Wide-brimmed hats protected the northwest coast
   Indians from frequent rain.
5. Wardrobe of a well-dressed Tlingit chief might
   boast an elaborate ceremonial cloak of mountain
   goat wool woman of the Chikat sub tribe.