FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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were a large American Indian group in the Pacific Northwest
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lived in mounds shaped like animals
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did not fish
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Kwakiutl are indigenous North American people of British Columbia. Their native language is Kwak’wala, and they are excellent fisherpeople due to their rich history rooted in fishing. These Native Americans have been living in the Pacific Northwest for around 9, 000 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Kwakiutl are one of several indigenous First Nations that inhabit the western coast of British Columbia, Canada, from central and northern Vancouver Island to the adjacent mainland coast.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Kwakiutl were widely known for their totem poles, elaborate wooden houses, and seaworthy log canoes, as well as for dramatizing myths and performing magic tricks.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kwakiutl, self-name Kwakwaka’wakw, North American Indians who traditionally lived in what is now British Columbia, Canada, along the shores of the waterways between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Kwakiutls lived in coastal villages of rectangular cedar-plank houses with bark roofs. Usually these houses were large (up to 100 feet long) and each one housed several families from the same clan (as many as 50 people.)