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Tables of Contents for If You Lived With the Indians of the Northwest Coast
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Introduction
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6
Where would you live?
6
1
What was your house like?
7
2
Who lived in your house?
9
1
How would you light your house?
10
1
What would you wear?
11
2
Would you ever get dressed up?
13
1
Why didn't the coastal Indians farm?
14
1
What would you eat?
14
2
Would you eat vegetables and bread?
16
1
What was a favorite treat?
16
1
How was your food cooked?
17
1
How would you keep food from spoiling?
18
1
What were good manners?
19
1
What did girls have to learn?
20
1
What was a spirit quest?
21
1
What if the spirits didn't come?
22
1
What did boys have to learn?
23
1
How would you make a canoe?
24
1
What would you do with an old canoe?
25
1
What happened if you got sick?
26
1
What was a shaman?
26
1
How did the coastal Indians believe the world began?
27
2
Why did the Indians want the spirits' help?
29
1
What was babyland?
29
1
Why did some coastal Indians have flat foreheads?
30
1
Were grown-ups strict?
31
1
Would you go to school?
31
1
Why was it important to be rich?
32
1
What was the most valuable thing you could own?
33
2
What were wool dogs?
35
1
Why was the cedar tree important?
36
2
Would you go to big parties?
38
2
Why were potlatches important?
40
1
Why did the coastal Indians carve totem poles?
41
2
Would you get to carve a totem pole?
43
2
What was the most important day of the year?
45
1
How would you catch salmon?
46
2
Could you fish anywhere you wanted to?
48
1
Where would you go in the summer?
48
2
Would you fish in the sea, too?
50
2
Did any coastal Indians go whale hunting?
52
2
What would you do in the winter?
54
2
What happened if you became a slave?
56
1
What did the first European explorers want?
57
1
Did the Indians get rich from the fur trade?
58
1
What happened when the settlers arrived?
59
2
Indian groups of the Northwest Coast
61