Northwest Coast
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Food
Food had to be collected from different places and at different times of the year. It was necessary for the people to move around the area.this movement was called the seasonal round. An area witch the seasonal round is we'll know is the lower main land of British Columbia. This was one of the richest areas for animal and plants life. This was a time of relatively little hunting and gathering activity and people sent their time making and repairing tools and telling tales within their own group.
Art
People from the Northwest coast have created some of the most extraordinary pieces of art in all of Canada. For example, totem poles are one of the most popular forms of art in the Northwest coast. They took chunks of western red cedars and carved a symbolic animal or bird on it to tell the story of the clans origins and deeds. Many of these totem pole were able to reach 30 meters high.
Shelter in the Northwest Coast:
Cedar was used to built the houses. There houses were really big and lasted for many years. The first steps to building these houses would be raising a strong and dressed cedar logs which were faced with cedar planks. The support poles in these houses were typically carved with images that were important to the clan that they were a part of.
This is where the Northwest Coast First nations lived.
Culture/Society/Political Structure
Northwest Coast people were deeply involed and believed in rank and priviledge. Villages had Chiefs and nobles who had the right to high family ranking names and who controlled access to the resource site. They also had traditional ceremonies potlatches were one of them and familys designed totem poles to depict the families history using crest.