First Nations Assignment

Fact Chart

Northwest Coast:

Food = shellfish/middens, salmon, birds, early ripening plants foods/salmon berries, huckleberries

Shelter = longhouses

Clothing = wooven bark capes, spruce root hats, simple skirts made out of shredded cedar fibre

Social Organization = inherited rank and priviledge/ cheifs and nobles gave right to high ranking families. Bilateral Kinship

government ceremony = The potlatch, ritual dances

Did they only live in longhouses? Please add any other information. What term would I use for the social organization? The only term I have is Bilateral Kinship. Please tell me if I've done this correctly, thanks

The first site has a lot of details about this nation's social structure.

The second site describes the plank houses of some of these people.

http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler07/frames/wc_peop.htm

http://www.aaanativearts.com/article1165.html