The Early Northwest

The Early Northwest
Author: Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780889772076

This publication is the inaugural volume of the History of the Prairie West series. Each volume in the series focuses on a particular topic and is composed of articles previously published in160;"Prairie Forum"160;and written by experts in the field. The original articles are supplemented by additional photographs and other illustrative material.

Indian Fishing

Indian Fishing
Author: Hilary Stewart
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781926706399

The Northwest Coast people devised ingenious ways of catching the different species of fish, creating a technology vastly different from that of today’s industrial world. With attention to clarity and detail, Hilary Stewart illustrates their hooks, lines, sinkers, lures, floats, clubs, spears, harpoons, nets, traps, rakes and gaffs, showing how these were made and used in over 450 drawings and 75 photographs. One section demonstrates how the catch was butchered, cooked, rendered and preserved. The spiritual aspects of fishing are described as well — prayers and ceremonies in gratitude and honour to the fish, customs and taboos indicating the people’s respect for this life-giving resource. The fish designs on household and ceremonial objects are depicted — images that tell of fishing’s importance to the whole culture.

A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest

A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Robert H. Ruby
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2013-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806189509

The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities. From such well-known tribes as the Nez Perces and Cayuses to lesser-known bands previously presumed "extinct," this guide offers detailed descriptions, in alphabetical order, of 150 Pacific Northwest tribes. Each entry provides information on the history, location, demographics, and cultural traditions of the particular tribe. Among the new features offered here are an expanded selection of photographs, updated reading lists, and a revised pronunciation guide. While continuing to provide succinct histories of each tribe, the volume now also covers such contemporary—and sometimes controversial—issues as Indian gaming and NAGPRA. With its emphasis on Native voices and tribal revitalization, this new edition of the Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest is certain to be a definitive reference for many years to come.

Northwest Coast Indians Coloring Book

Northwest Coast Indians Coloring Book
Author: David Rickman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780486247281

Thirty-three black-and-white drawings representing aspects of the culture and society of Indians of the Northwest coast.

Indians of the Pacific Northwest

Indians of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Vine Deloria, Jr.
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2016-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1555917658

The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these tribes’ fight for survival, one that continues today.

Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest

Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Ella E. Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520350960

This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.

Northwest Coast Indians

Northwest Coast Indians
Author: Liz Sonneborn
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2011-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1432949497

This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Northwest Coast region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.

Keeping it Living

Keeping it Living
Author: Douglas Deur
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2005
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0774812672

Keeping It Living brings together some of the world'smost prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examinetraditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska. Itexplores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camasplots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia,estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia,wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berryplots up and down the entire coast. With contributions from a host of experts, Native American scholarsand elders, Keeping It Living documents practices ofmanipulating plants and their environments in ways that enhancedculturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes howindigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 speciesof plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwaterbogs.