The Northwest Native Americans!
My paper has a lot of information about how the northwest Native Americans cooked their food, ate it, and got it. The northwest Native Americans did hunt. They hunted fish and deer. They did not hunt other animals because the Northwest coast was near rivers and oceans so they d really didn’t need to hunt. They loved fish oil. They used it for almost everything they cooked. They also loved Salmon. The northwest tribes that I know of are the Hupa tribe, the Kalapuya, Tlinget tribe, the Tsimshian tribe, the Kwakiutl, the Haida tribe, the Nootka tribe, the Makah tribe, the Salish tribe, the Bella Coola tribe, and the Yakima tribe. This was a long time ago and the northwest coast Native Americans live way differently now.
Before I tell you how they cooked the food and what food they ate you need to know how they got the food. The northwest people did hunt. They hunted fish, whale, and deer. They gathered berries, roots, and bird eggs. Clams were gathered on beaches. The northwest people ate a lot of fish like halibut, cod, flounder, and candlefish, and of course salmon. They ate fish because they were close to the rivers and oceans. Sometimes a whale washed up on the beach and the whole village would come out and help the men skin the whale. The northwest people used wooden clubs, traps, nets, and spears to hunt the fish. Nets would catch the fish. Clubs were made out of wood. The men would hit the fish with them. Traps would catch the fish.
They used weirs, gates, and stonewall to trap the fish. My question is what is a weir? It is a fence in the water to trap the fish. Wow. The northwest people are a really good community. They are a great community because each person had a special job. Like the men have the hunting and fishing job. When I read these books I felt like I was a northwest Native American!
The northwest Native Americans cooked lots of different ways. The northwest people ate with their hands. They cooked on sticks over the fire, made cooking boxes out of wood. The northwest people dipped the fish into the fish oil and ate it with their hands. The fish was cooked on roasted sticks that they cooked over the fire. They did not make pottery. Cooking boxes could not be cooked on the fire because they were made out of wood so they put fish and water and hot rocks until it boiled. Fish rotted very quickly, so the women dried it over the fire and if it were hot outside, they would put the fish out in the sun. They did that for the berries, too. It was so much fun studying about the northwest Native American’s food. They have a great menu because they have so many ways to cook their food. I compared these days to those days, and they have some good ways to cook their food, like cooking boxes are brilliant.
The northwest native people ate a lot of different things. The northwest people had a lot of favorite foods, like fish eggs, salmon, fish oil, whale oil, and deer meat. On special occasions they would even drink fish oil. They used fish oil for almost everything. The northwest people LOVED fish eggs and fish oil. Some fish eggs are now known as caviar. The northwest Native Americans had a big party called Potlatch. During Potlatch the people would come and eat a lot of food, and the host would give presents to everybody. You would not get the same presents. As an example a big chief would get a big present like a canoe or a coat. The host would sometimes give almost everything away. But of course when the host goes to another Potlatch party he would get a valuable gift. The northwest Native Americans have great taste. I love salmon fish eggs are ok but Native Americans are so cool!
The northwest Native Americans have cool ways to cook their food get their food and eat their food. They sound like nice people, don’t they? I want to say that Native Americans ROCK! They had cool ways to survive and cool things to eat. Northwest Native Americans and I are alike. We both love food!
