Northwest Pacific Indians

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Northwest PacificIndians

• By Zak, Cody, Kassi

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Tribes
Lummi Indians Makah Indians Nootka Indians
Puget Sound Salish Indians Quileute Indians
Quinault Indians Shasta Indians Skokomish
Indians Tolowa Indians Tututni Indians Willapa
Indians Wiyot Indians Yurok Indians
Pacific Northwest Achomawi Indians Chemakum
Indians Chukchansi Indians Clayoquot Indians
Coast Salish Indians Cowichan Indians Haida
Indians Hupa Indians Hesquiat Indians Karok
Indians Klamath Indians Koskimo Indians
Kwakiutl Indians
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Region

• Northwest Pacific
• Pacific shore
• They lived in now what is Alaska down the coast
  to northern California. This was a rugged strip
  of land with many small islands, deep inlets an
  narrow beaches. Mountains rise to the shore in
  many places. Thick forest of spruce cedar an fir
  dominate the area supplying an endless supply of
  wood.

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Food

• Fish
• Salmon
• Sea Otter
• Seal
• Whale. Flounder, sturgeon

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clothing

• The men wore fiber rain capes an skin robes,
  along with breech clouts
• The men tattooed there arms with dentailum, which
  is a shell strung together an used as money.
• The women wore basketry hats rain capes
  sleeveless jackets an some skin robes.
• The fiber clothing was made from woven strips of
  bark.

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Living

• Most villages consisted of large rectangular
  houses with 30 to 40 people living in them.
• They were made by plank sides gabled In the
  north. The posts usually were carved an
  decorated.
• In each house there lived about 7 families an
  each had the space of a barn stall.
• Totem poles stood in front of the house to show
  the titles of the head of the house hold .

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sources

• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/tribes
  .html
• http//www.native-languages.org/clothing.htm
• http//www.freespiritgallery.ca/salmons.htm
• http//www.freespiritgallery.ca/northwestsalmon.ht
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• http//www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports3/northwes
  t.htm