Coastal People

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Coastal People

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• November 2007

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Where did they live?

• West of the Cascades
• Along the Pacific waters and the Puget sound
• From Oregon to Alaska

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Whats the climate of this region?

• Moist, humid, marine and less extreme weather

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Whats the vegataion of this region?

• Very lush ( this is used for a place to hide in,
  hunt in, and play in)
• The ocean (used to bath in, cool off in, travel
  in, and a place to get food)
• Berries and other natural fruits or vegetables
  (used for paint and food)

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What type of house would I live in if I were a
coastal native?

• If you were a native you would live in a Plank
  house.
• Poles hold up long huge cedar planks
• There is a fire in the center, straight above it
  there is a hole in the roof to let all smoke out
• There are long shelves and compartments by the
  walls for storage and places to sleep in.
• Salmon hang from the roof

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What did the first people on the coast eat?

• Salmon
• Shell fish
• Clams/Muscles
• Whale
• Berries
• Dear
• Different types of birds
• Wild Roots

• Other plants
• Rabit
• The Makah tribe mostly ate that.

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How did the coastal people get around.

• Swim
• Canoe
• Walk, skip, run, ect.

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Natural Resourses

• Cedar trees ( they natives like this also native
  plant so much because this could be used for
  mats, clothes, baskets, canoes, totem poles, and
  shelter)
• Water ways ( they provided plentiful seafood and
  water)

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Tribes

• Clallam
• Chinook
• Hoh
• Klallam
• Makah
• Ozette
• Queets
• Quinalt
• Chelalis
• Cowlitz

• Lummi
• Muckleshoot
• Nisqually
• Nookshack
• Puyallup
• Samish
• Skagit
• Snoqualmie
• Suquamish
• Willapa

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Tools used for hunting and fishing

• Wier a wooden gate you place in the river seafood
  cant swim past it a hunter spears them after
  they are caught
• Atlatl an atlatl is a spear

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What skills do the Coastal people use to hunt?

• The coastal need to be strong
• The need to have balance
• And you need to have precision

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What Knowledge would I need to hunt and fish?

• You would need to know where to get a lot of
  salmon
• What types of berries are poisons

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How are they good stewards of the environment?

• Coastal people are good stewards of the
  environment because they only take what they need
  
• They are not wasteful
• They use all of the plant or animal they kill

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How can we help the environment

• We can drive fuel efficient cars
• We can have proper drainage of soapy water
• We can use corn oil for gas
• We can stop using fertilizer or pesticides
• We can use eco friendly soaps

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Bibliography

• Pelz, Ruth. The Washington Adventure. 1. Layton,
  UT Gibbs Smith, 2004.
• Thanks for Watching