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Headings: Northwest Coast Indians
Northwest Coast Indians
Introduction
Area
Food
Housing
Society
Religion
Modern Developments

Content: Food
Northwest Coast peoples had no problems finding food. They could get plenty of fish, shellfish, and even whales, seals, and porpoises from the sea and local rivers. They trapped huge hauls of salmon and candlefish as the fish swam upstream to spawn. Northwest Coast peoples varied their fish-based diet through hunting and gathering. Families traveled to the mountains where the men hunted deer, elk, mountain goat, and bear. Women collected bulbs, roots, berries, and seeds. Housing
Northwest Coast Indians lived in different places depending on the season. Groups spent the winter in several large houses. In the summer house groups would break up into smaller groups, which would move between good fishing and berry-picking sites. Summer was when they would process food for winter storage.