Location of Tribe
What was the location of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans?
The Pacific Northwest Native Americans lived in the northwestern region of the United States and Canada.
This included northern California, Washington, Oregon, and into Alaska.
How did the Pacific Northwest Native Americans get their food?
The Pacific Northwest Native Americans got their food by hunting and gathering.
What type of homes did the Great Basin Native Americans use to live in?
They used the hogan. It was easy to move around a lot.
Name a famous Pacific Northwest Native American tribe.
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The Northwest Coast Indian peoples, who lived in the Pacific Northwest, can be classified into four units, or “provinces.” The northern province includes speakers of Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and the Tsimshian-influenced Haisla (northernmost Heiltsuq or Kwakiutl). The Wakashan province includes all other Kwakiutl, the Bella Coola, and the Nuu-chah-nulth. The Coast Salish–Chinook province extended south to the central coast of Oregon and includes the Makah, Chinook, Tillamook, Siuslaw, and others. The northwestern California province includes the Athabaskan-speaking Tututni-Tolowa as well as the Karok, Yurok, Wiyot, and Hupa.
What was the location of the Plains Native Americans?
The Plains Native Americans live in the middle of the United States.
How did the Great Basin Native Americans get their food?
They were hunter-gatherers.
What type of homes did the Plains Native Amerians live in mostly?
They migrated a lot so they used teepees.
Name a Plains Native American.
Sioux, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, and Crow
What was the location of the Great Basin Native Americans?
The Great Basin Native Americans lived between the Pacific Northwest and the Great Plains.
How did the Plains Native Americans get their food?
They were hunter-gatherers and farmers.
What types of homes did the Pacific Northwest Native Americans live in?
Permanent homes called plank houses.
What were some of the Great Basin Native American tribes?
Ute, Shoshone, and Washo