Christopher Spillman and Nick Walker Pd.4
Q.1 Locate your tribe on the map of the North America. Describe the land, weather, and natural resources where your tribe lived. Answer. The land of the Makah Tribe was moist because of rainfall. The land was also sandy because the pacific ocean is next to there location. The weather there was cold and rainy because of the ocean and it rains a lot in the northwest United States. The natural resources were water and trees which they cut down for wood and for fruit.
Q.2 Did your tribe move? Why or Why not? If yes, where are they located today? (On the day you present, you will have a map of the United States projected on the board for you to use during your presentation)
Describe two Native American
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For example: teepees, adobes, mesas, caves, or others. They lived in teepees and built them using mud, wood, straw, and sticks. The tepes only sheltered one family. Tepes were the only protection from rain and lightning.
What did your tribe eat? How did they get their food? What animals did they hunt? Did they travel to find food? How did they travel? Did they grow food? What kind? The Makah tribe hunted and ate seals sea lions and even whales also deer and birds, and small animals on land. Makah Women gathered fruits, the Makah tribe were mostly marine hunters.
Any other information you find and want to include in your report. Currently in Neah Bay, WA, they have lots of cool tourist attractions relating to the tribe. Some attractions are a Makah Museum, a Makah Marina, and a Makah Tribe Center. Makah is pronounced "muh-kaw." Which in english it means generous ones. Their own name for themselves is longer and harder to pronounce, Qwiqwidicciat which means people of the point. Now Makahs speak English but back then they made their own language called Makah language, Nobody can speak it fluently anymore but some elders can speak