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Headings: Northwest Coast Indians
Northwest Coast Indians
Introduction
Traditional Culture
Peoples and Languages
Food
Settlements and Housing
Clothing
Technology and Arts
Society
Religion
European Contact and Cultural Change

Content: Other important fish were herring, smelt, cod, and halibut. People also dug clams along the beach and smoked them just as they did salmon. 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. The women collected bulbs, roots, berries, and seeds. Settlements and Housing
Most groups built villages near waterways or the coast. Usually home sites and settlements were limited to narrow beaches or terraces because the land fell so steeply to the shore or riverbank. Like other hunting and gathering peoples, Northwest Coast Indians had seasonal settlements. Summer was the time for catching and gathering food and processing it for winter storage. In this season a house usually had several bases of operation.