USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Northwest Coast Culture Area stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to about the Oregon-California border. This strip of coast has a relatively mild climate, temperate rain forest of spruce, hemlock and fir, and rich marine life. Summers are cool and winters are wet and mild.

Detailed explanation-2: -Native people of the Pacific Northwest maintained a distinct respect for cedar and the value it had held for many generations. Cedar logs compose the primary support system of the plank houses of the Pacific Northwest Indians, and are clad with thick cedar planks harvested from living trees.

Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout the region women wore skirts or gowns of buckskin, soft leather, or woven wool or plant fibers. Men’s dress varied from tribe to tribe but was in general quite minimal-most men wore nothing but ornaments on warm days. For protection from the rain, they had cedar-bark raincoats and a brimmed hat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Historically, the Northwest Coast people inhabited a narrow belt of North American Pacific coastland and offshore islands from the southern border of Alaska to northwestern California. Their world stretched from Yakutat Bay, in the northeastern Gulf of Alaska, south to Cape Mendocino, in present-day California.