Title: Native People of the American Northwest Coast
Headings: Native People of the American Northwest Coast
Native People of the American Northwest Coast
HOW THEY GOT HERE
COOL CULTURE
LIFE TODAY
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Content: Native People of the American Northwest Coast
Oceangoing canoes are carved from cedar or spruce trees and hollowed out to fit as many as 30 people. Photograph by Michael Wheatley, Getty Images
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Native People of the American Northwest Coast
Get facts and photos about the history and culture adapted from the Nat Geo Kids book Encyclopedia Of American Indian History And Culture. By Cynthia O'Brien
By Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh
HOW THEY GOT HERE
About 10,000 years ago, people began living on North America’s Northwest Coast, a narrow area along the Pacific Ocean that stretches across parts of modern-day Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Yukon and British Columbia in Canada. By 3,000 B.C., people had set up permanent villages along the rivers, peninsulas, and islands of this region. The thunderbird, a spirit being, was a common crest for totem poles like this one. Photograph by Andrea Izzotti, Shutterstock
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The ocean and the lush coastal forests provided the Northwest Coast people with everything that they needed to survive.