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Nations of the Northwest Coast

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  • Author: Smithyman, Kathryn
    Contributor: Kalman, Bobbie
    Date:
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    2013
    Summary:

    Explores how the waters, mountains, and forests of the Pacific Northwest have provided food and shelter for groups such as the Tlingit, the Haida, and the Kwakiutl for thousands of years.

    Contents:
    • The Northwest Coast
    • Clans, moieties, and phratries
    • Villages
    • Salmon and cedar
    • Homes of the Northwest Coast
    • Traveling the waterways
    • Trade
    • The potlatch ceremony
    • Northern peoples
    • Central peoples
    • Southern peoples
    • People from other lands arrive
    • Changed ways of life
    • The nations today.
    Subject(s): History | Indigenous peoples--North America | Juvenile literature | Northwest Coast of North America | Social life and customs
    Original Publisher: New York ; St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub., 2004
    Language(s): English