The Pacific Northwest Indians

By Felicia,Jesse, and Mark

• The food they hunted and caught were salmon, seals, sea otters, deer, elk, bear, sea lions, halibut, smelts, sturgeon, flounder, herring, and berries.

• They're shelter was made from cedar trees.

• The Pacific Northwest Indians wore little clothes. The men wore cone shaped hats to keep the sun out of they're eyes and from reflecting off the water. They were made out of root's from cedar and spruce trees twisted like straw. The women wore skirts from the shredded strips of cedar bark and leftover material from making canoes.
• Some of the activities they did in their spare time was Basketry, making nets, weaving, carving,, they used coppers, they made their own clothing.

• Their shelter were long houses made of red and yellow cedar. Thirty to forty people could live in a long house and they were usually at least fifty foot long and forty feet wide. Many long houses had totem poles at the front of the entrance.

• The legend of the totem pole was that the animal shapes represented different members of the family tree. The totem poles were carved out of cedar tree into shapes of animals.