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The Kwakiutl lived in long, narrow houses called long houses or plank houses. Up to 50 people from the same clan would live in one house. Totem poles are ceremonial statues that were carved by many of the tribes in the Pacific Northwest.
- What did Kwakiutl do for a living?
- What is a Kwakiutl blanket?
- What is the climate where the Kwakiutl settle?
- What happened to the Kwakiutl tribe?
- What materials did the Kwakiutl homes?
- What kind of food did Kwakiutl eat?
- What do plank houses look like?
- What tribe lived in adobes which were made in clay?
- What Capital resources did the Inuit have?
- What did the Lakota live in?
- How did the Kwakiutl get their name?
- Where do the Kwakwaka WAKW live now?
- What were plank houses made out of?
- Where did the pueblos live?
- What type of homes did the Iroquois live in?
What did Kwakiutl do for a living?
Kwakiutl Life Then and Now
Kwakiutls have always been fisherpeople, which comes as no surprise considering they live on the coast. In traditional villages thousands of years ago, men used to fish for salmon, herring, eulachon, and halibut using traps and other fishing equipment.
What is a Kwakiutl blanket?
These blankets were made after the Hudson's Bay Company began to trade wool blankets to the natives. Originally abalone or other shells were fashioned into buttons, but trading also brought beads and pearl buttons to work with, such as those used to highlight the design.
What is the climate where the Kwakiutl settle?
They lived in Arctic areas where the temperature is below freezing much of the year. Kwakiutl homeland includes the Pacific Northwest coast, characterized by a rainy, mild climate.
What happened to the Kwakiutl tribe?
In general, the 1850s and 1860s were terrible years for the Kwakiutl, marked as they were by the destruction of several villages by the British Navy and Bella Coola raiders as well as smallpox epidemics.
What materials did the Kwakiutl homes?
The Kwakiutls lived in coastal villages of rectangular cedar-plank houses with bark roofs. Usually these houses were large (up to 100 feet long) and each one housed several familes from the same clan (as many as 50 people.)
What kind of food did Kwakiutl eat?
The Kwakiutl hunted in both the rivers and the forests. They ate beaver, deer, rabbit, and fish. Caribou was a major source of food. They also used the skins, antlers, and bones.
What do plank houses look like?
The large houses varied in size and ranged from 20 to 60 feet wide and from 50 to 150 feet long. The men split slabs from the straight-grained red cedar trees and stripped off the branches. ... The strong log framework of the Plank House usually consisted of 8 main posts that were peg-joined to 4-6 roof beams.
What tribe lived in adobes which were made in clay?
Hopi people lived in adobe houses, which are multi-story house complexes made of adobe (clay and straw baked into hard bricks) and stone. Each adobe unit was home to one family, like a modern apartment. Hopi people used ladders to reach the upstairs apartments.
What Capital resources did the Inuit have?
People who fished, made clothing, and hunted animals were examples of human resources. The canoes, bows, and spears American Indians made were examples of capital resources.
What did the Lakota live in?
The Lakota people lived in large buffalo-hide tents called tipis (or teepees). Tipis were carefully designed to set up and break down quickly.
How did the Kwakiutl get their name?
The name Kwakiutl derives from Kwaguʼł—the name of a single community of Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw located at Fort Rupert. The anthropologist Franz Boas had done most of his anthropological work in this area and popularized the term for both this nation and the collective as a whole.
Where do the Kwakwaka WAKW live now?
Kwakiutl, self-name Kwakwaka'wakw, North American Indians who traditionally lived in what is now British Columbia, Canada, along the shores of the waterways between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
What were plank houses made out of?
A plank house is a type of house constructed by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, typically using cedar planks.
Where did the pueblos live?
Pueblo Indians, North American Indian peoples known for living in compact permanent settlements known as pueblos. Representative of the Southwest Indian culture area, most live in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico.
What type of homes did the Iroquois live in?
6. The Iroquois people lived in longhouses. Longhouses were large wood-frame buildings covered with sheets of elm bark. The Iroquois of today live in modern houses and apartment buildings.
