Title: Northwest Coast Native Americans: Survival Lifeways
Headings: Northwest Coast Native Americans: Survival Life-ways
Northwest Coast Native Americans: Survival Life-ways
Northwest Coast Native Americans:
Common Resources
The Tree of Life
Salmon
FREE Mini Survival Guide: "Thriving in the Outdoors"
Hunting
Stone Tools
Masters of Survival
Additional Resources:
First Peoples of Canada

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The Northwest Coast Native Americans relied on hoofed animals such as black-tailed deer, elk, mountain goat and bighorn sheep as sources of food and materials. All parts of these animals were used for a variety of purposes: meat for food, tallow for medicine, sinew for cordage, bones for tools, hooves for rattles, horns for bowls or spoons, antlers for wedges or flint-knapping tools and hides for clothing or even armor. Stone Tools
Stone had a wide variety of uses, often involving hunting or food preparation. Stones were into mortar and pestles, ground or flint-knapped into hunting points or knives, and as weights for fishing lines or fishing nets. Obsidian was locally one of the favorite stones for making points and knives, but was rare and was usually traded for from southern tribes. Basalt was one of the most common fine-grained stones and was used to make workable knives and hunting points. Slate was also ground down into workable hunting points and fish knives.