CALIFORNIAN INDIANS

Tolowa, Shasta, Karok, Yurok Hupa Whilikut, Chilula, Chimarike and Wiyot tribes.

Climate:
It's not Hot and Not freezing. There are beaches. They survived it by not wearing a lot of clothes.

Clothing:
Because of climate they didn't wear a lot of clothes. Woman wear short skirts and men usually don't wear anything. Most of it was made of animal skin.

FOOD

• Acorns- they were very big in their culture
• Meat
• Sea food
• Moose
• Elk

They built villages and lived in large groups. They lived in houses that are dome like roofs.

Roles:
Men hunted food and brought it to the tribes and woman collected Plants for the tribe.

Culture:
They liked salt and drying foods. They also had feasts. They all spoke many different languages. They used unique baskets to collect things.

SOURCES

• "California Indians." :: Clothing -- Kids Encyclopedia. Web. 12 Nov. 2014. .
• American Indians - Woodland Tribes & California Indians (pg. 2)." Kidzworld. Web. 13 Nov. 2014. .
• Ashrose, Cara, and Bryna Waldman. The Very First Americans. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1993. Print.
• California Indian Basket Collection. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 14 Nov 2014. http://quest.eb.com/#/search/110_364997/1/110_364997/cite
• Natives dancing near the San Francisco Mission in California, 1822, lithograph by De Langlume from a drawing by Choris taken from A New

SOURCES

• Natives dancing near the San Francisco Mission in California, 1822, lithograph by De Langlume from a drawing by Choris taken from A New
• Paiute Wickiup Shelter. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 14 Nov 2014. http://quest.eb.com/#/search/110_365171/1/110_365171/cite