NATIVE AMERICAN CULTRAL REGIONS

AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE NORTH WEST COAST

NW COAST FOOD AND CLOTHING

• Women wove the barks soft inner core into warm waterproof coats and hats
• Fish, salmon, deer, elk, and mountain goats were some food that they ate

NW COAST HOUSING

• The Kwakiutls used wood from the forest for housing
• The built huge wooden structures that severed as home for several familys
• Outside each home they placed totem poles

NW RESOURCES

• Densefir, pine, and cedar forest.
• Many people settled on the flat few, rocky beaches.
• Made ropes out of cedar bark.
• They used rope for fishing nets and to hold together fish traps.

NW CLIMATE

NW TRIBES

• Tlingits
• Chinooks
• And Kwakiutls

NW ARTIFACTS

• They used Wood for houses
• Each fish trap was shaped like a cone
• Salmon would swim into the cone and could not escape

AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE SOUTH WEST

SW FOOD AND CLOTHING

• The Apaches tribes were nomatic
• Hopi women wore cotton cloth to stay cool in the summer
• The men wove the cloth for blankets and clothing

SW HOUSING

• Built a apartment buildings called pueblos
• the apartments were up to 4 or 5 levels high

SW RESORCES

• The hopis farmed
• Raised crops sucha as corn, beans,squash, and cotton

SW CLIMATE

• Days are hot
• Nights Are cold
• Long hot summers
• Short mild winters

SW TRIBES

• Apaches
• Hopis
• Anasazis

SW ARTIFACTS

• Made clay pots
• Served their food in pots
• The used plants to make dyes in color

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