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Northwest Coast Native Americans

• Chapter 2 Lesson 4
• New SS book pg 95 97

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Rich ResourcesSS book pg 95

• The Northwest Coast region had plentiful
  _______________________ resources.
• Its forest contain many, tall __________, and
  these forest were full of ______________________
  for hunting.
• The coastal waters and rivers were filled with
  _____________________ and ________________________
  __.

natural
trees
animals
fish
seals
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Totem Pole

• The totem pole was a carved post with
  __________________ and other images representing
  a persons ancestors.
• These poles were carved by hand out of wood.
• People proudly displayed their totem poles, some
  as tall as a ____________________ story building.
• The purpose of a totem pole was to show a
  _____________________________

animals
four
family history
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Totem Poles
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• The Northwest Coast is a narrow strip of land
  that stretches 2,000 miles along the Pacific
  Ocean from present day southern
  ______________________ to northern
  __________________________.
• The Northwest Coast Indians lived between the
  ocean and rugged _____________________________
  ranges.
• The growing season was short, and the climate was
  too __________________________ for much
  agriculture.

Alaska
California
moutain
wet
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Resources

• Growing their own food was difficult, so the
  Indians had to ________________,
  ___________________, and gather plants to
  survive.
• There were plenty of fish, __________________,
  _________________, and other animals.
• There was wood to build houses and make
  _______________________.

fish
hunt
deer
bears
tools
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Trade pg. 76

• Trade was very common in an area were travel was
  so hard.
• Because mountains made travel by land difficult,
  people traveled by _______________________________
  _.
• The Columbia River was the ____________________
  of the Northwest.
• People used ____________, which were large,
  hollowed out logs, to travel the rivers.

water
highway
dugouts
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Making a Dugout
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• One type of housing was called a
  _____________________________
• These were rectangular houses made from large
  flat cedar planks or _____________________ of
  wood.

plank house
boards
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The Chinooks

• Chinooks villages were made up of rows of long
  ____________________________ houses.
• These houses were built of wooden boards and had
  no _________________________.
• The Chinooks built each house partly over a
  __________________ dug in the earth so that some
  of its rooms were under the ground.
• These houses are called a _________________.
• Several ________________________ belonging to the
  same clan lived in each house.
• A _________________________ is a group of
  families that are related to one another.

wooden
windows
hole
pit house
families
clan
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Pit House
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pit house
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• The Chinooks controlled the ______________________
  ___ River.
• They made other peoples pay them for the right to
  ______________________ the river.
• This area, known as The Dalles, became a huge
  trading center.
• In The Dalles, people from other tribes would
  _______________________, or exchange goods.

Columbia
travel
barter
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The Columbia River
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• Wealth was very important to the people in the
  Northwest Coast area.
• To show off the things they owned tribes held
  ______________________.
• These were special gatherings or celebrations
  with _________________ and _____________________.
• During a potlatch, the hosts gave away valuable
  ____________________ as a sign of their wealth.

potlatches
feasting
dancing
gifts
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The Makahs

• The waters of the Northwest helped give the
  people who lived there plenty of
  ____________________.
• Most coastal tribes captured only
  _________________ whales, those that had become
  stranded on shore.
• The Makahs, however, built __________________ to
  hunt the whales at sea.

food
beached
canoes
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• Makah whale hunters often spent months preparing
  for a whale hunt.
• They made new wooden ______________, long spears
  with sharp shell points.
• And they repaired their _______________ and
  paddles.
• A group of whale hunters would set out for the
  open ocean searching for any signs of a whale.

harpoons
canoes
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Grey Whale
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• When a whale is spotted the chief harpooner
  throws his _______________into the whale.
• Sealskins are tied to the harpoon line to make it
  difficult for the whale to dive down into the
  water.
• Other harpoons are thrown into the whale.
• When the whale dies the hunters start
  ______________________ it to shore.
• The people will eat the whales _______________
  and skin, make ropes and bags from other parts of
  the animals body, and use the fat as fuel.

harpoon
towing
meat