Northwest coast BY robert

Food The food that the people of the northwest coast eats is seafoods like salmon that they later smoke they also eat clams like oysters, shellfish they also eat animals like deer, goat, and bear. The way they obtain their food is by going hunting or fishing

clothing In the warmer days men would wear nothing and the woman would just wear a bark skirt, in the colder days men would wear a lot of clothing. The material that they used to make all of their clothing was out of softened cedar wood or bark, animal leather, and wool..

Shelter The kind of things build to keep them survive were houses, baskets, boxes, canoes, and mask. The material that they used was all made out of cedar tree.

Transportation The forms of transportation that they used was a canoe which is a sort of boat. The materials that they used to the make the canoe is with the bark of the wood frame but there are 6 different types of canoe, wood canoes, wood/canvas canoe, aluminum canoes, fiberglass canoe, kevlar canoes and royalex canoe.

MAP OF NORTHWEST COAST.

RELIGION The culture of the northwest coast believed that their passed history was passed down threw songs and dances. The religious leader Was a Indian of the northwest coast in North America The ceremonies A potlatch was a big celebration that often took more than a year to plan. The ceremony usually corresponded with a person's change in social status, for example, marriage, birth, death, and coming of age. It included a feast, singing and costumed dancers, and some potlatches lasted as long as two to three weeks. Most importantly, though, potlatches became a way in which families could show off their wealth to others

Social organization and government In Northwest Coast culture, there were specific roles for both the men and women. •Men were responsible for all the hunting and fishing. •Men also did all the building (longhouses) and carving (canoes, totem poles). •Women stayed near the home, doing work on land. •The women were responsible for all of the chores related to keeping the home: they cleaned, cooked, and looked after the children •The Northwest Coast people never developed a democracy. Instead, their society was ruled by wealth. The wealthiest clan had the most power. •Their society included different classes: nobles, commoners, and slaves (acquired through War or purchase).

Kinship Groups in the northwest coast tended to be matrilineal passing status, property, and education through the maternal line those in the other three provinces were generally patrilineal. Marriages were usually arranged by parents, who openly wish to see their children rise in status. As with up marrying slaves, members of the middle classes of a group could marry up if they had distinguished them selves in some way the children of these marriages would inherit the status of the higher ranking spouse. If the spouse of lower rank was not distinguished the children would accrue the lower status.

CITATIONS http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_nwc5.html / Clothing Website Title: The Northwest Coastal People - Religion / Ceremonies / Art / Clothing http://www.britannica.com/topic/Northwest-Coast-Indian#toc260064 Northwest Coast Indian | people Encyclopedia Britannica Online Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica