Investigating Haida First Nations (Elise)

Roles and Beliefs

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Clothing

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Shelter and tools

Food

How did they make there clothing?
-They found cearder trees and made shheets of wood and sowed them together for the skirts
-For the masks the carved bones and wood to make the mask and then they used flowers to paint them

What did the haida wear?

  • The women wore skirts and capes
    -All pepole wore capes made om ceader wood
    -They wore mask form cerimomis

What materils did they use to biuld there homes
-Western ceader wood forr walls
-Long wood planks for the roof
-sticks and logs for open spaces

What wepeons and tools did they use in daliy life
-Fishing hook for fishing , made of bones wood and string
-sledge hammer for bulding, made of stone
-Aroows for hunting, made of wood and bone

What kinda of house did they live in
-There homes where called Longhomes. They were squer and rectalguer with planke roofs. depening on the reagion the longhomes would be diffrent.

How did the shelters protecet them for the enviorment
-The walls protected them from the wind
-The roof protected them from the snow and rain

Who are the leaders?
Edenshaw was one on the most famouse and reconised haida leaders in haidas time.

What Roles do they have?
Some of there roles are fishers bulders
cookers bakers and colthing markers.The wemen are normaly bakers and clothing markers.

What troditions and celibratrion do the haida do?
They have trodinon feast and potluckes. They also have dances.

How did they get there food?
They cought there fish in the ocean.They Grow there fresh fruit and vegtabs and they hunted there deer.

Was it hard to find food?
it would get hard in the winter to grow fruit and vegitabes. it woukld not be that hard to fish or find land amimals.

What was the clothing made of?

  • The capes and skirts are made of caeder wood
  • The masks are made om bones and wood

Why did they make these clothes
-They made thoses clothes because those were the mateares they could find and thats what they could make

Transportation

Where did they travel?
-Pacific northwest coast
-Southern Alaska
-Northwest Brithis Colabia

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-What did the haida use to get around?
They used conoes to travel around because there trib is based in The east coast. There conoes were carved out of wood

Why did they travel?
-Seacoast hunting
-Fishing
-War Fare
Hunting

Did they have special food ?
They had some specils foods for gathrings and cearmonys the specilc foods were cord beans and squash.

What food did they eat?
-Sea food such as salmom and fish
-Bearys and root vegtabels

  • land animas like deer goats and mountain goats