Resources
The most important source of food for most natives in the PNW.
What is salmon?
The way an author sees or thinks about a topic.
What is Author's Point of View?
A special feast of Pacific North Coast Natives in which guest receive gifts.
What is a potlatch?
The type of tree that most NW natives used to build their homes.
What is Cedar?
Apostolos Valerianos.
Who was the Strait of Juan De Fuca named after?
Kinds of plants that Northwest natives searched for to eat.
What are berries and roots?
This Author's Purpose often uses facts and details to teach the reader something.
What is to Inform?
Something given out at a potlatch that was obtained through trade with Europeans.
What are food, iron tools or ornaments?
The number of family members living in one house.
What is 40 to 100 people?
The animal that was hunted for their fur until they were nearly extinct.
What is a sea otter?
Name the season when the salmon returned to Northwest rivers.
What is early spring to late summer?
This Author's Purpose wants to convince the reader to believe or do something.
What is to Persuade?
Name one PNW tribe that held potlatches.
Who are the Tlingit, Haida, Coast Salish and the Chinook?
A wood carving placed outside of native homes to show family crests and clan membership.
What is a totem pole?
The British captain who named more than 75 NW mountains and rivers.
Who was George Vancouver?
The name of the region where most NW natives lived in.
What is the Puget Sound Region?
This Author's Purpose includes plays, jokes, comics, and poems.
What is to Entertain?
A reason for having a potlatch.
What is show off wealth, birth of a child, wedding celebration, or death of a tribe member?
Name given to the homes of Northwest Natives.
What is a plank house or longhouse?
The British Captain who was killed by Hawaiians over a "stolen" boat.
Who was James Cook?
The number of pounds of salmon a native family could expect to catch in one day.
What are 1,000 pounds?
Emotional words used to influence a reader.
What is Loaded Language?
A potlatch was a way of improving a person's _____.
What is wealth and social standing?
The name of the currency made from shells and beads that natives sought in trade.
What is wampum?
The name of the waterway that connects the Pacific Ocean Atlantic Oceans above North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?