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The Pacific Northwest Coast at one time had the most densely populated areas of indigenous people ever recorded in Canada. [1] [2] [3] The land and waters provided rich natural resources through cedar and salmon, and highly structured cultures developed from relatively dense populations.
The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774–1874. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-295-97837-6. Moss, Madonna. Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History. Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology, 2011. Pritzker, Barry M.
The Pacific Coast of Jefferson County: Jamestown S'Klallam Indian Reservation: 594 12 Near Sequim Bay, in extreme eastern Clallam County: Kalispel Indian Reservation: 470 4,629 The town of Cusick, in Pend Oreille County: Lower Elwha Indian Reservation: 776 991 The mouth of the Elwha River, in Clallam County: Lummi Indian Reservation: 6,590 21,000
The Makah (/ m ə ˈ k ɑː /; Makah: qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌) are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast living in Washington, in the northwestern part of the continental United States. They are enrolled in the federally recognized Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, commonly known as the Makah Tribe. [1]
The first smallpox epidemic to hit the region was in the 1680s, with the disease travelling overland from Mexico by intertribal transmission. [12] Among losses due to diseases, and a series of earlier epidemics that had wiped out many peoples entirely, e.g. the Snokomish in 1850, a smallpox epidemic broke out among the Northwest tribes in 1862, killing roughly half the affected native ...
A Northwest Coast longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia Interior of a Salish Longhouse, British Columbia, 1864. Watercolour by Edward M. Richardson (1810–1874). The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America also built a form of longhouse. Theirs were built with logs or split-log frame ...
The Haida (English: / ˈ h aɪ d ə /, Haida: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat) are an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. They constitute one of 203 First Nations in British Columbia [1] and 231 federally recognized tribes in Alaska.
The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast — in the western coastal region of the Pacific Northwest, in North America For the peoples of the eastern inland Pacific Northwest, see Category: Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau .