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Northwest Coast Native Americans
  • Chapter 2 Lesson 4
  • New SS book pg 95 97
  • Made by Kevin Roper

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Rich ResourcesSS book pg 95
  • The Northwest Coast region had plentiful
    _______________________ resources.
  • Its forest contain many, tall __________, and
    these forest were full of ______________________
    for hunting.
  • The coastal waters and rivers were filled with
    _____________________ and ________________________
    __.

natural
trees
animals
fish
seals
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Totem Pole
  • The totem pole was a carved post with
    __________________ and other images representing
    a persons ancestors.
  • These poles were carved by hand out of wood.
  • People proudly displayed their totem poles, some
    as tall as a ____________________ story building.
  • The purpose of a totem pole was to show a
    _____________________________

animals
four
family history
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Totem Poles
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  • The Northwest Coast is a narrow strip of land
    that stretches 2,000 miles along the Pacific
    Ocean from present day southern
    ______________________ to northern
    __________________________.
  • The Northwest Coast Indians lived between the
    ocean and rugged _____________________________
    ranges.
  • The growing season was short, and the climate was
    too __________________________ for much
    agriculture.

Alaska
California
moutain
wet
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Resources
  • Growing their own food was difficult, so the
    Indians had to ________________,
    ___________________, and gather plants to
    survive.
  • There were plenty of fish, __________________,
    _________________, and other animals.
  • There was wood to build houses and make
    _______________________.

fish
hunt
deer
bears
tools
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Trade pg. 76
  • Trade was very common in an area were travel was
    so hard.
  • Because mountains made travel by land difficult,
    people traveled by _______________________________
    _.
  • The Columbia River was the ____________________
    of the Northwest.
  • People used ____________, which were large,
    hollowed out logs, to travel the rivers.

water
highway
dugouts
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Making a Dugout
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  • One type of housing was called a
    _____________________________
  • These were rectangular houses made from large
    flat cedar planks or _____________________ of
    wood.

plank house
boards
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The Chinooks
  • Chinooks villages were made up of rows of long
    ____________________________ houses.
  • These houses were built of wooden boards and had
    no _________________________.
  • The Chinooks built each house partly over a
    __________________ dug in the earth so that some
    of its rooms were under the ground.
  • These houses are called a _________________.
  • Several ________________________ belonging to the
    same clan lived in each house.
  • A _________________________ is a group of
    families that are related to one another.

wooden
windows
hole
pit house
families
clan
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Pit House
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pit house
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  • The Chinooks controlled the ______________________
    ___ River.
  • They made other peoples pay them for the right to
    ______________________ the river.
  • This area, known as The Dalles, became a huge
    trading center.
  • In The Dalles, people from other tribes would
    _______________________, or exchange goods.

Columbia
travel
barter
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The Columbia River
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  • Wealth was very important to the people in the
    Northwest Coast area.
  • To show off the things they owned tribes held
    ______________________.
  • These were special gatherings or celebrations
    with _________________ and _____________________.
  • During a potlatch, the hosts gave away valuable
    ____________________ as a sign of their wealth.

potlatches
feasting
dancing
gifts
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The Makahs
  • The waters of the Northwest helped give the
    people who lived there plenty of
    ____________________.
  • Most coastal tribes captured only
    _________________ whales, those that had become
    stranded on shore.
  • The Makahs, however, built __________________ to
    hunt the whales at sea.

food
beached
canoes
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  • Makah whale hunters often spent months preparing
    for a whale hunt.
  • They made new wooden ______________, long spears
    with sharp shell points.
  • And they repaired their _______________ and
    paddles.
  • A group of whale hunters would set out for the
    open ocean searching for any signs of a whale.

harpoons
canoes
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Grey Whale
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  • When a whale is spotted the chief harpooner
    throws his _______________into the whale.
  • Sealskins are tied to the harpoon line to make it
    difficult for the whale to dive down into the
    water.
  • Other harpoons are thrown into the whale.
  • When the whale dies the hunters start
    ______________________ it to shore.
  • The people will eat the whales _______________
    and skin, make ropes and bags from other parts of
    the animals body, and use the fat as fuel.

harpoon
towing
meat
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