Northwest Native American Culture

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The Northwest Native American Culture Region adapted the best to their unique climate and environment by using their resources such as their food sources, housing and tools. These where extremely important to the people because they where items that let them live day to day in premature settlement. This is show easily as it was the longest Region stretching across the entire coastline. Each of these they made/used for different purposes. All of this was vary good to expand as a region/culture.
The northwest had some of the most plentiful food supplies due to their geographical location. They're main source was fish from the Pacific Ocean, the fish were so abundant they were able to kill them standing in the water with spears. Also due to the

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