Land of Salmon and Cedars
The Native Americans of the Northwest Coast traveled almost everywhere by this form of transportation.
What is a canoe?
This is what the people called their homes.
What are plank houses?
This is the art that women often created.
Whatis basket weaving and textiles?
The first group of outsiders recorded to have arrived in the area of the Northwest Coast Peoples.
Who are the Russians?
The Modern Northwest Coast Nations are governed by these people.
Who are chiefs and elders?
Figures a carved in poles that decorated many villages and homes of the Northwest Coast Peoples.
What are Totems?
The Northwest Coast Peoples hunted and gathered these foods during the spring and summer.
What are berried and roots?
This is the art that men often created.
What are wood carvings?
Britain sent this Captian to claim the Northwest Coast area
Who is Captain James Cook?
A celebration that includes singing and dancing and new members are adopted into clans.
What is a potlatch?
Type of wooden damns built to catch fish easily.
What are weirs?
Activities that the Northwest Coast Peoples did in the winter.
What is creating art, telling stories, and feasting at elaborate ceremonies?
The materials used to make baskets.
What are roots, twigs, and grasses?
A loss of 90% of the Northwest Coast Peoples' population was caused by this problem.
What are diseases brought by outsiders?
A cultural and dance celebration where traditional dances are performed.
What is a powwow?
The rugged Northwest Coast stretches this far from the north to south.
What are 2,000 miles?
Babies spent their first year of life strapped to one of these.
What is a cradleboard?
Women used the wool of this animal to weave blankets.
What is the mountain goat?
Traders did were not interested in the Northwest Coast land, but this group of people was.
Who were settlers?
A group formed in 1912 to fight for the rights of Native Americans in the U.S. and Canada.
What is the Alaska Native Brotherhood?
The reason that the Northwest Coast Peoples were one of the few Native American groups to place importance on acquiring possessions.
Why is food and time readily available?
A popular game in which rivals tried to toss pointed sticks through a ring that was rolled along the ground.
What is hoops and poles?
When making canoes, the people use this to heat water and soften the wood so that the sides of the canoe could be pushed out.
What are red-hot rocks?
Tracts of land set up by Canadian and United Stated for the Northwest Coast Peoples.
What are reservations?
Northwest Coast People have a tradition of hunting this large marine animal in canoes.
What is the whale?