North West Coast

North West Coast Tribes

By Cole Borden

The North West tribes were mighty. As you read this you will find about their amazing culture.

The north west coast has an interesting home named the plank house .To build there plank house. we used cedar logs.cedar split easy into the boards that covered the house.In these houses we had 4 corner posts that held the wall.Anther intresting fact is how huge they were.The plank house is one spacious room and it is 160 square feet.This enourmous room can hold 100 people.Since this is a gigantic space they had weddings and other  celebrations. Now you now how the plank house was made.

I’ll tell you  about our clothes. To begin with the North west coast people wore cedar bark .They got the cedar bark by cutting it from a cedar tree .If they took to much the treewould die. The strands of bark were woven in a clever way. The North West coast natives also made a cedar cape. Goat hair or fur was used to make the bark comfy. These capes were water proof to. They also wore hats of spruce roots .  The hats  were waterproof too. The spuce roots were heated up.Then they wove the spruce roots and  desighned them And there you have it. I told you all about our clothes.

The North West Coast ate lots of sea food I’ll tell you about it . We caught and ate lots of salmon .We caught millions of salmon. Salmon is our main food . The salmon returned every summer. They used harpoons and nets to catch the sea food . They dried the salmon and smoked it and gave it away. They did not just eat salmon they ate other ocean creatures like whales. We used blubber for fire wood because it bured a LONG LONG time. How they caught these massive animals was they dug a HUGE hole by the beach.The men went into a large whale canoe and tried to find a whale. If they found a whale they would drive it into the hole they at the beach dug up then they would of threw

spears at the whale till it died.  That’s what the North West coast ate.

We had cool tools and weapons I will tell you about it . To begin with we had canoes. We had a freight canoe. It was designed to carry lots of weight. The length of this canoe was forty feet. We also had a whale hunting canoe it was seventy feet.Thirty men could fit in it. We also had large harpoons. We used harpoons for caching salmon .As you can see the North West Coast had useful tools.

The North West Coast  had  a fantastic enviorment. To begin with the weather was moderate. The warmest month is July. The coldest month is Decemeber. The rainest month is November. We also lived in a forest. In the forest we had lots and cedar, lakes, rivers, and lots of animals. We used cedar for clothes and houses. The rivers were full of salmon and animals were good for food. As you can see the North West coast had a fantastic environment.

You should now see that the culture of the Northwest tribes was very interesting