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The Northwest
Indians

The  Table  Of  Contents  

 

Ge​ ography                  -­                              Clara  Cabral  
R​eligion                            -­                              Noah  Smith    
Ac​ hievements        -­      Clara,Jon,Maria,Noah  
P​olitics                                -­          Jonathan  DeOliveira  
So​ cial  Structure    -­        Maria  Sanchez-­Roa  

                                                   The  Northwest  Coastal  
                                                                ​Geography​  
                                                               By:  Clara  Cabral  
                                                                      ​  I​ ntroduction

 
This  is  the  Northwest  coastal  highway,  they  would  use  the  
highway  to  fish  and  go  whale  hunting  and  some  times    just  
to  get  fresh  air  riding  their  canoes.They  would  also  use  
their  canoes  to  get  to  their  summer  house  and  their  winter  
home.    
 
 
 
 
 

     
 
 

     F​ oods  

   
     
 

This  is  a  black-­tailed  deer.This   This  is  a    beaver.The  Northwest  

deer  is  indigenous  to  the  North   Coastal  would  hunt  these  kind  of  

America.The  Northwest  coastal   beaver.They  would  roast  the  

would  eat  these.  The  men  would   beaver  and  then  it  when  it  was  

hunt  these  kind  of  deer.   done  they  would  eat  it.  

 

   
 
   
 
  These  are  different  types  of  nut’s  
  that  women  and  children  would  
  gather  to  eat.  They  would  also  put  
These  are  wild  berries  that     fish  oil  on  their  nut’s  like  their  
women  and  children  would     berries.    
gather  to  eat.  They  would  put  fish  
oil  on  their  berries  and  eat  it.    

     
                                                                   Kinds  of  Fish      
 

   
 
 
 
 
   
   
 
 

This  is  a  flounder  from  the   This  is  a  salmon  from  the  

Northwest  and  the  men  would  hunt   Northwest  Coastal,that  men  would  

this  kind  of  bear.  the  women  would   hunt  then  bring  to  the  women  to  

roast  them.Then  they  would  eat  it.   smoke  it  and  then  put  in  the  

smoke  house  then  leave  it  there  

for  about  a  few  days.    

     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

   
 
                                               L​ andforms  and  Climate    

 
 

  This  is  the  North  West  Coastal  
climate.It  has  a  lengend  and  
This  is  the  North  West  Coastal   picture  of  Alaska  too.  
Landform.We  are  in  the    part  of  
Alaska,  California,Washington  
state  and  Oregon.    

   
 
 
 
   
 
 

 
 
                                                               O​ ceans  
 

the men going whale hunting

The men going to war

 

The  North  West  Coastal  men  going   In  this  kind  of  canoes  12  to  20  

to  war.  They  would  only  go  to  war   men  to  go  whale  hunting.The  

to  get  slaves,  because  they  never   biggest  whale  they  ever  caught  

did  their  work,  they  had  slaves  to   was  33.6  meters  and  it  weighed  

do  it  for  them.   190  metric  tons.  

 

 

 

   
                                                                       ​Oceans  
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This  is  one  the  north  west  coastal   This  is  one  of  the  houses  that  the  

canoes  that  they  used  to  go  to  wars   North  West  Coastal  would  live  in.  

and  go  whale  hunting.   Their  houses  could  be  about  50-­150  

feet  long  and  it  was  about  20-­60  

feet  wide    

 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 

                                                 B​ oys  and  Men  Clothes  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This  is  the  chief  and  he  would   This  is  what  the  men  would  wear.  

wear  a  blanket  over  his  fancy   They  would  wear  blankets  over  

clothes,because  it  was  old  in  the   their  clothes  and  their  hair  would  

winter  and  in  the  summer  it  awfully   be  very  long.  

hot  so  they  would  wear  hot  clothes  

in  the  winter  and  more  colder  

things  in  the  summer.  

 

   

 

   

 

 

                                     ​Girls  and  Womens  clothing  
   

 

 
 
 
This  is  what  the  chief's  wife  would   This  is  what  the  women  would  wear  
wear  and  her  daughter  would  wear   ponchos  over  their  other  clothes  
the  same  thing.  A  poncho  over  her   they  would  wear  under  and  some  
clothes  and  jewelry  and  usually   jewelry  and  also  their  hair  was  
they  would  wear  their  hair  down   down.  
instead  of  up.  
 
 

Where  the  Northwest  Coastal  Would  go  in  the  Summer    
                           a​ nd  Where  was  the  Best  place  to  stay  
The  Northwest  Coastal  would  go  down  the  river  and  live  in  
mat  covered  houses.The  best  place  to  be  arranged  stay  
was  down  river  not  up  river,because  the  fish  would  be  dry  
and  not  so  juicy    than  the  fish  down  river,they  would  
collect  berries  too.The  Chief  would  usually  stay  down  
river.    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Where  the  Northwest  Coastal  would  stay  in  the  winter  
The  Northwest  Coastal  would  stay  by  the  ocean  (that's  
their  original  home)they  wouldn't  hunt  in  the  winter  they  
would  just  smoke  the  fish  and  eat.The  winter  was  the  best  
time  that  the  Northwest  coastal  would  have  potlatches.  
   
 
 
 
 
 

North West Coastal Religion
By Noah Smith

This is a totem pole.

SPIRITS OR SPIRIT QUEST

This is a picture of a spirit. This is a picture of a boy This is a picture of a forest

When a boy was twelve, he left his family to go on a
Spirit Quest. The purpose of a spirit quest was to find
a Spirit to help you for your whole life. The boy would
go in the forest and wouldn’‛t eat for days. Then …
BOOM! The Spirit comes and tells you if you are to be
a boat carver or totem pole maker. If the spirit didn’‛t
come you would have to keep on trying it might take
years for it to come. The Spirits hated fear. If the
Spirit didn’‛t come your family would be ashamed.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Babyland  
 

 
Babyland was a place where babies lived before they
were born. The babies had their own language but when
they got older they forgot about it.If the baby cried a
lot that meant that the baby didn’‛t like his/her parents
fighting a lot. Then the parents would take the baby to
a medicine women. The women could understand the
baby's language.

​WO​ U​ ​LD​ Y​ O​ ​U​ G​ E​ T​ ​ T​ O​ ​ C​ A​ R​ ​VE​ ​ ​A​ TOTEM POLE?

The Northwest Coastal Indians were good at carving
totem poles. It took about 10 years to make and carve
a totem pole. Plus, the Northwest Coastal Indians made
their own natural colors like black,red,blue,green,white
and brown and they made them out of clamshells and
salmon eggs. You wonder how they made their own
paintbrushes? They used porcupine needles as their
paintbrushes! Also,they used the totem poles to honor
the dead. The totem poles were 80 feet high.You also
used it to tell stories. The totem poles were also
history.

WERE POTLATCHES IMPORTANT?

A potlatch was a big party that the Northwest Indians
had to celebrate important times like births and
weddings. The word potlatch means ‘’‛To give away’‛’‛
because the host gave the people presents at the end
of the party. You had to be pretty wealthy to throw a
party.The more important you were, the bigger the
present was. The Northwest tribe loved big parties like
this.

WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF THE YEAR?

The most important day of the year was when the salmon came back to
the river.The Northwest Coastal Indians thought that the salmon was a
person not really a fish. The Northwest Coastal Indians celebrated the
first fish they caught, the chief would catch the first fish, then they
roasted it then ate it. Then after you ate the first fish now you were
able to go fishing.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IN THE WINTER?

The North West Indians did a special dance in the
winter. Also they told stories around the fire. Some
dances are full of magic tricks like they would cut off
your head. Each of these dances represents a Monster
Spirit. Like the Kwakiutl spirit it would eat lots of birds
or even capture hunters. Some hunters would survive
the Kwakiutl bird and tell the other villagers what
happened.

NorthWest  Coastal  Indians  

Achievements  

By:  ​Maria Alejandra Sanchez- Roa,​ ​ C​ lara DS. Cabral,​ J​ onathan Goncalves
DeOliveira​ and Noah Smith

 

Resources    

The  N.W.  coastal  indians  were  known  as  the  show  
off’s.They  would  throw  really  big  party’s  (  called  
potlatches)  and  give    away  all  their  stuff  to  all  the  people  
that  came  to  the  party  and  the  people  that  threw  the  party  
would  very  high  in  the  community.​    ​The  more  the  Indian  
gave  away  the  more  important  the  indian  was  to  the  tribe.  
Also,  the  more  the    Indian  was  rich,  the  more  the  Indian  
was  important  and  respected  by  the  tribe.​The  Indians  
made  HUGE  canoes.  T​ hey  used  the  Cedar  trees  that  they  
had  all  around  them.The  canoes  were  about  20ft  long!  
Before  they  striped  bark  off  the  trees  they  sang  a  song  or  
prayer  to  the  tree.​They  had  houses  50ft  high!  That’s  
HUGE​  isn’t  it.​The  Northwest  was  the  richest  tribe  of  all  
that’s  why  the  Northwest  Coastal  tribe  is  called  the  
showoffs.​  They  would  use  candlefish  to  light  their  houses  
by  putting  a  spindle  in    the  candelfishe’s  mouth  and  set  it  
on  fire.  ​  

Here  is  a  Northwest  coastal  home.  ↑  

 

 

 

 

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They  also  went  whale  hunting!  
   
 
   
 
 
The  N.W.  indians  used  traps  and  spears  to  hunt.  
 

The NorthWest Coastal
Indians aka The Showoffs

(Politics)
by:Jonathan Goncalves

DeOliveira

The  N.W.  Coastal  
Indians  were  known  as  the  showoffs  
because  the  tribe  would  show  off  all  
their  valuable  collections  to  the  other  
tribes.  The  Indians  were  HUGE  partiers.  
The  more  the  indians  gave  away  the  more  
important  the  
indian  was.

 

 

 

Here  is  a  picture  of  a  
Potlatch  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slaves  

Another  thing,the  indians  
had  were  slaves.  If  you  were  
caught  in  s​ lavery ​  chances  you  
wouldn’t  be  able  to  see  you  
family  again.  You  would  have  
to  do  all  the  hard  work  and  
even  sleep  in  the  same  house  as  
the  family  that  owned  
you.  Also,  if  you  were  

a  grown  boy  you  
would  paddle  your  
owner’s  war  canoe  
and  fight  in  wars.  

Here  is  a  picture  of  the  N.W  Coastal  slaves  standing  outside  of  
a  N.W.  coastal  home.    

 

 
 
 
 

here  
is  a  picture  of  the  fur  

trade  
 
 

The  Fur  Trade  

The  Indians  did  get  rich  from  
the ​  fur  trade.​  In  fact,  The  

Showoffs  were  skilled  

traders.  Their  totem  poles  

were  more  detailed.  Many  

villages  spend  time  hunting.  

The  fur  trade  also  changed  

how  the  indians  looked  and  

worked.  

 

European  Explorers  

 
European  Explorers  wanted  to  

help  the  N.W.  Coastal  Indians  by  
putting  them  in  the  fur  trade.The  fur  
trade  helped  Them  in  a  special  
way.N.W.  Coastal  Indians  can  use  sea  
otter  skin  to  buy  stuff  from  other  
countries  instead  of  using  
wampum.European  Explorers  sailed  to  
the  N.W.  in  1777.  Only  a  few  European  
Explorers  have  explorers  
Northwest  Coast.    
 
 
 
 

here  is  a  picture  of  the  european  
explorers.  

 
 
 
 
 

 

the  Settlers  

 

 ​The  settlers  brought  4  different  
kinds  of  diseases  ;  such  as  S​ mallpox  

measles  influenza  and  Malaria.  

now  because  of  this  most  of  the  

Indians  did  not  survive.  Only  1  out  

of  5  tribes  survived  in  the  The  

Northwest  coast  

also  lost  most  of  

their  land  such  as  

fishing  grounds  and  

hunting  grounds  

Now  because  of  this  

the  Indians  old  

traditions  

disappeared. here  is  a  

picture    

of  

the  northwest

Here are some northwest
coastal chiefs.

 

The N.W. Coastal Indians Social
Structure

By: Maria Alejandra Sanchez-Roa

 

Farming

The N.W. Indians ​NEVER f​ armed.They believed that with
all the salmon they had and the berries they picked
that they did not need to farm. So the woman always
gathered while the man fished.​ And they ​LOVED​ their
fish so much because they used the fish for almost
everything and smoked fish, fish oil and they used the
fish for candles too. They even had fish oil for
dessert. They especially loved the Eulachon fish.

This is a N.W. Indian man in
a chilkat blanket.

These are some of the fish This is some of the berries
they ate. they ate.

 

Would You go to School

The N.W. indians didn’t go to school because they didn’t have
a school. They didn’t have schools but they did learn. They
would learn by watching other people do things and you had
to use your memory. They had no written language.​ T​ he boys
learned to fish, cut down trees and carve totem poles at an
early age. And if your special talent was Whale hunting you
would have a teacher. The girls learned to cook, smoke fish,
make clothes, baskets, take care of the house, make​ fish oil,
handle canoes and swim.

This is one of the baskets. These are some N.W. indians.

 

Your House

You had a ​HUGE ​house. You lived with your entire family
including : your mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin, aunt, uncle,
grandma and grandpa. Most houses had a chief (probably
your dad) and the chief had his private room. the chief was
the most important person in your house.​ Inside the house
you had beds attached to the wall and baskets under the
beds to store things. And you had painting on the walls plus
the house that had a chief had a totem pole as the door to

the house.​ T​ he N.W. indians loved their totem poles.

This is one of the chiefs This is a pic of the outside of
houses with​ relatives. ​ the chief's house.

 

The most Valuable thing you could
own.

The Most valuable thing you could own is a Chilkat
blanket. The chilkat blankets were woven by women.
First they started with a pattern on a wood block then
they printed that pattern on the fabric by just looking
at the picture on the block and printing it they that
they u​ sed for the blanket and after that they were
finished. Also another valuable thing would be a copper

shield. The chief would have a
copper shield, just the chief. The
chief was very important.

This is one of the blankets.

 

Why Did Babies Have Flat
FOreheads

The N.W. indians thought that flat heads were
beautiful.So when the indians were babies (since when
you are a baby your bones were actually a flexy but a
little bit hard substance called cartallige)​ they put pads
on your head to shape your head.And after that you
always had a flat head for the rest of your life. It was

kind of their style.

This is a baby with pads on.

 

Glossary  

 

 
Fish  Oil-­  Oil  made  out  of  fish  that  is  edible  and  can  be  
used  for  many  things  
 
Fur  Trade-­  Where  the  indians  traded  
 
Hunting-­  going  after  animals  with  a  gun  or  another  kind  of    
Weapon  and  planning  to  kill  it.  
 
Relative(s)-­  A  family  member  or  Family    
 
Slavery-­When  a  slave  is  bought  and  is  being  traded.  
 
 Traditions-­What  they  celebrate  religiously  
 
 
 

 
 

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Noah  Smith  

 
 

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About  the  Author                                                              ​              ​
The Author’s name is Clara Cabral. Clara loves
animals,and she has a puppy named Bear.She
lives on Martha’s Vineyard,in Edgartown.She
has a little sister named Anita.Her mom’s name
is Ana, And her dad’s name is Tai. Clara and
Anita’s parents are from Brazil.Clara and her
sister do horseback riding together. Their
horseback riding teacher’s name is Elyce.Their
teacher has one dog and three horses,one
named Larry the other named Hershey and the
last one’s name is Max. Elyce’s dog name is
Monkey, He is very active just like Clara’s dog.
Clara is 10, She likes to play on her trampoline
and ride her bike down the road she lives on.

About The Author

The Author’s name is Maria Alejandra Sanchez-Roa she is 10
years old and she has two older brothers and a mom and
dad. She lives at 4th street North in Edgartown. She was born
in Bogota, Colombia. Maria came to the U.S. when she was 3
years old Her oldest brother’s name is Andres and he goes
to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional high school. Her other brother
named Juan is in 8th grade and goes to the Edgartown school.

Her mom’s name is Marcela and her dad’s name is
Christopher or Chris. Her dad is a cop at the Tisbury Police
Department. Her mom helps people at their house. Maria likes

to play a lot of games like chess, checkers and a lot of
others. Maria's favorite subject in school is spanish. She also
loves the snow and her two favorite seasons are winter and
summer. She had a pet fish but then it passed away. Her

favorite color is pink. THis is all about Maria Alejandra
Sanchez-Roa.

 
 
 
 
Noah  Smith  is  a  5th  grader.    His  favorite  sport  is  hockey.  He  lives  with  his  parents  and  his  
sisters,  Paige  and  Josey.  He  enjoyed  researching  Native  American  tribes  for  this  book.  

About  the  Author    

Jonathan  DeOliveira  
 

Jonathan  DeOliveira  is  a  student  at  the  
Edgartown  School.  He  has  an  older  sister  named  
Myllenna,  who  goes  to  the  Martha’s  Vineyard  
Regional  High  School  in  Oak  Bluffs.  He  has  a  mom  
that  is  34  and  a  dad  that  is  34.  His  favorite  class  in  the  
Edgartown  School  is  math.  He  likes  to  learn  about  
different  ways  to  solve  math  problems.  He  has  a  pet  
bird  named  Zoe  that  he  truly  loves.  He  loves  to  travel  
in  tropical  places  like  Florida,Brazil  and  the  
Caribbean.  He  loves  the  snow  too.  Only  if  he  can  go  
sledding,snowboarding  and  skiing.  he  has  some  
family  members  in  Brazil    (where  his  father  was  born).  
Jonathan  is  a  nice,funny  and  fun  friend  to  have.  He  
has  one  dog  named  Trixi  and  a  bird  called  Zoe.  He  
loves  video  games  and  sports.  He  is  also  an  islander  
so  is  his  mother  and  sister.  

About The Author

The Author’s name is Maria Alejandra Sanchez-Roa she is 10
years old and she has two older brothers and a mom and
dad. She lives at 4th street North in Edgartown. She was born
in Bogota, Colombia. Maria came to the U.S. when she was 3
years old Her oldest brother’s name is Andres and he goes
to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional high school. Her other brother
named Juan is in 8th grade and goes to the Edgartown school.

Her mom’s name is Marcela and her dad’s name is
Christopher or Chris. Her dad is a cop at the Tisbury Police
Department. Her mom helps people at their house. Maria likes

to play a lot of games like chess, checkers and a lot of
others. Maria's favorite subject in school is spanish. She also
loves the snow and her two favorite seasons are winter and
summer. She had a pet fish but then it passed away. Her

favorite color is pink. THis is all about Maria Alejandra
Sanchez-Roa.