How Haida Cooked Their Food

Food
-Deer had many uses, their meat is eaten fresh and smoke dried.
-The easiest way to hunt seals was to sneak up on the seal that was basking in the sun.
-In the summer, they would eat elk, bear, salmon or even mountain goats.
-For the Haida, they would consume shellfish and sea mammals which were the staples for them. Berries root, eggs and birds were hunted to enrich this ocean diet.
-Secwepemc picked leaves from the Labrador tea shrubs and dried for use in regular or mint tea.
-The Haida cooked their food by using heated rocks inside cedar boxes or heated rocks inside baskets full of water.

Shelter
-Haida houses were constructed of red cedar with framework of stout corner posts that supported massive beams.
-The frame was clad with wide planks.

-The Secwepemc people slept on tree branches and matts that were laid out on the floor for their comfort while fur and hide provided a warm covering.
-The Secwepemc lived in permanent pit houses in the winter and the portable lodges that resembled teepees in the summer months.
-Some Haida villages had as many as 30 longhouses with up to 1000 people living there.

Clothes
-The Haida clans clothing was usually made from yellow or red cedar dark. The Haida women wore skirts and capes and men wore capes.
-The Haida women wore hats from split spruce roots and the men painted them with forms of animals, using mostly with red and white small touches of green and blue.
-All Secwepemc wore fur coats, capes, cans, mittens, socks and leggings for extra warmth in winter.
-Women’s buckskin dresses were decorated with porcupine quills, bone beads, shells and elk teeth.
-The Secwepemc also wore headbands and headgear.
-The Haida also had large elk skin capes that were decorated with paint and figs.
-The Secwepemc footwear was made from the hide of deer, elk, caribou and