NORTHWEST COAST INDIANS

REGION

• Northwest
• Southern Alaska
• Oregon
• Washington
• Northern edge of California

LARGE TRIBE NAMES

• Chinook: friendly and curious.famous leaders included- Chief Tumulth and Chief Comcomly
• Haida: best known for their carving and painting

LIFESTYLE

• Languages: Chinookan, Athapaskan, and Penutian
• Animals: goats, sheep, deer, moose, bear, elk, and fish
• Clothing:raincoats
• Lived in Plankhouses

SOCIAL ORANIZATION

• Woman: did the chores (making clothes, cleaning the house, collecting berries, and weaving baskets and mats)
• Men: Did the hunting and the fishing.
• They also had a chief

POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

• Dress according to where they are ranked on their class system
• Men: were responsible for the hunting and farming
• Woman: responsible for doing chores
• They also had to marry outside of their own clan.

MIGRATION

• They relied on the Pacific Ocean to transport. This meant they had to build strong canoes for the journeys.
• (The canoes were carved out of large cedar trees)

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

• Animism: spiritual or religious ideas that everything has souls or spirits
• Totemism: believed that humans had a kinship to a spirit being such as an animal or plant.

TRADE

• Land base fur trade
• They used the waterways for trading
• They traded: fish, canoes, and slave trading.

ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION

• Evolved in to fisherman

CONFICTS

• They were peaceful people
• Only problems they had were little arguments over land.