Basic+Needs

What are the crops and food eaten in the tribes of this region?   What are the gender roles in the tribes in this region?
 * Your group is in charge of identifing the Basic Needs of the North West Native Americans. Use these questions to guide your research.**
 * These tribes ate salmon.
 * These tribes ate berries.
 * ﻿They also ate seals and even whales!
 * These tribes ate roots.
 * They eat musk oxen
 * They joined the Great Buffalo Hunt
 * They ate peanuts
 * They ate wild sheep
 * They ate antelope
 * They ate elks,deer and big horn sheeps
 * Men hunted, fished, cut ceader trees and mostly worked out of their tribe.
 * The women were responsilble for cooking, making clothing, and taking care of the home.
 * And the kids would play games.
 * The women wove baskets.

What influence did the climate have on food and shelter?
 * Wood houses were built so that rain or snow don't get in.

What are the types of shelter used by these itribes? What materials were used and how were they constructed?
 * Wood houses would be made of cedar trees. The wood fit together so thy didn't use nails!
 * One of their many houses was called the Smoke House.
 * They have a house pit-house.

What modes of transportation were used by these tribes? How were they used?
 * They used the dog sleds to travel over far distances in the winter.
 * They also used the canoe to help get out to the ocean so they could fish for marine animals.
 * They rode on horses backs and pulled sleds behind them.
 * They rode horses,canoes to get across rivers,and they walked.

How did the climate influence the tribes in this region basic needs?
 * During the summer; they get lots of food.