Tlingit

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Tlingit

• Native Americans of The Northwest

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Tlingit

• Awesome Artifacts

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Awesome Artifacts

• Tlingit fathers teach their daughters to carve
  totem poles. These totem poles go outside of
  there homes. These totem poles mark the social
  rank of the family. A traditional totem pole has
  animals such as Beavers, Ravens, Eagles, and
  Frogs.
• The Tlingit Indians were famous for their art and
  technology. They used there technology to build
  dams and traps for catching salmon.

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• The Tlingit Indians made large canoes that could
  hold up to fifty people.
• The Tlingit Indians did not create pottery but
  they made baskets out of cedar trees.

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Cool Clothes for Tlingit
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Cool Clothes for Tlingit

• The Tlingit made clothes out of goats, deer,
  bear, and bird feathers. They also wore water
  proof hats woven very tightly.
• Males, females, and children had nose rings which
  were giant silver rings.
• The fishermen wore woven cedar bark garments,
  made from Cedar trees which grew everywhere and
  were important.
• At ceremonies dancers wore colorful Chikat
  blankets.

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Tlingits Amazing gifts and Transportation

• The Tlingits used many ways to get around for
  transportation. Onw way to get around was the
  Canoe. A large Canoe held fifty people and were
  used to trade with and to go to wars. Small
  canoes were used to fish with
• The Tlingits also walked. Walking was a simple
  way to get around.

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• Swimming was also a easy way to get around. If
  the Tlingits did not have a canoe, they would
  probably swim.
• Horses was a big way to get around. The
  Tlingits would probably go on horses to move
  around quickly. They portly went on horses a
  lot.
• The Tlingits gave gifts usually at Potlatches.
  Potlaches are special feast. Somethings they
  usually gave at Potlatches fur robes and canoes.
  The gifts depended on the person.

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Tlingit Tribe

• Food

Northwest region
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Sea food

• The Tlingit Tribe ate roots, berries, salmon,
  cod, herring , trout, halibut, mussels, clams,
  eggs,sea lions, otters, goats, bear,and deer.
  Salmon was there main source of food.
• They caught it with traps, spears, or nets.They
  ate it fresh or dried.
• They cooked there food over a smokey fire.
• The Tlingit tribe often found there food by the
  sea,on the shore, in streams, rivers, oceans. Or
  in dense forests
• Many times the Tlingit tribe took the oils from
  the fish to use for many other cooking
  purposes.
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The food that the Tlingit tribe ate

• The Tlingit tribe usually ate salmon that could
  be cooked fresh or dried.
• They speared,used nets or traps to catch the
  fish.
• They got most of their food from the water.
• The Tlingit tribe also ate roots and berries that
  they found on the ground.
• If a tribe lived inland, they would hunt mountain
  goats ,bear, and deer for food.

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Shelter of the Tlingit

• Shelters

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The Super Shelter

• The Tlingit built large homes because they were
  highly skilled woodworkers.
• The Tlingit made temporary fishing camps in witch
  they lived in houses made of cedar.
• The Tlingits homes are painted with colorful
  designs.
• Most homes had a totem pole standing in front of
  the houses to honor a chief or family members.

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• The Tlingit sometimes carved animals on the
  wooden posts that supported doors and entrances.

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Region of the Tlingit

• Northwest Coast

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The Resourceful Region

• The Tlingit lived in the Northwest Coast where
  the forest and sea provided abundant resources
  like fuel, wood for homes, from the forest and
  halibut from the sea.
• The land had direct water routes which helped
  them trade with other regions and therefore
  became wealthy.
• The land had animals to hunt year round and
  berries to eat.

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• The heavy rainfall helped create a rainforest
  environment with cool summers and mild winters.
• The Tlingit lived on the beaches and islands of
  southwestern Alaska where the islands created a
  protected waterway that allowed travel and
  communication by water.
• Today the Tlingit people maintain interests in
  fishing and working in the forests, which are
  things that helped the Tlingit survive over time.

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Thank You!