The Northwest Coastal Indians lived in what is now Alaska along the Pacific Ocean down the coast to Northern California. This was a rugged strip of land with many small islands, deep inlets, and narrow beaches. The mountains rise to the shore in many places. Thick forests of spruce, cedar, and fir dominate the area supplying and endless supply of wood. Many rivers and streams cross the land. By the 1750's more than 100,000 Indians lived in this area because it was richer in Natural Resources than any other area of North America.
Northwest Coastal Indians.
The Northwest Coastal Natives used Red Cedar wood, split into boards for their houses.
The major landforms in the Pacific Northwest where Native American tribes resided included mountains like the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains, forests such as the temperate rainforests of the coastal areas, rivers like the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and coastal areas along the Pacific Ocean. These diverse landscapes provided abundant natural resources for the tribes, shaping their cultures and ways of life.
Occasionally different Chinook groups would fight wars against each other, or against other Northwest Coastal tribes.
One of the many traditions that the northwest Indians did was the potlatch.
The Indians in the Northwest territory were supposed to be treated equally and fairly.
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caddo, tonkawa, and karankowa were some of the many Indians that lived in the Texas coastal plains