Native Americans all across North America have been mistreated since the Europeans first arrived. Despite being treated slightly better than the dust on the ground, they mainly kept to their ways. They never took too much from the land, and many tribes had a well formed way of life. Fast forward to around the 1800’s and they are still living this way, but many are being mistreated. Europeans explored and took land at every chance. This led to many of the remaining Native Americans to be on the other side of the Mississippi river. One of the tribes on the other side of the river was The Chinook. The Chinook Native Americans hunted and gathered food without taking too much, they made fantastic pieces of art with unconventional materials, and
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The totem poles are incredible works of art usually included some form of a bird on top. Usually, at the top of the totem pole proudly stands an eagle, but their styling made some of these carvings appear to be a combination of animals. Like in the totem to the right, the bird seems to have raccoon like ears. Also, The Chinook crafted canoes. These canoes were very important to the Chinooks, for if they did not create them, fishing would be difficult or impossible, trading would be much more difficult, and everywhere they would travel only by foot. The canoes were almost like cars to them, for if they did not have one, life would be much harder for …show more content…
However, The Chinooks had their own ways of keeping heat in or letting it out. First, they must keep warm in chilling rain, so they overlap wood on rooftops. This provides an easy runoff path for the rain. Also there are no windows, and a small hole makes up the entrance, thus making these structures extremely heat efficient. Consequently, without windows, the smoke from the fires inside cannot escape, so slots in the roof are incorporated letting the smoke out. An entire extended family could fit into one plank house which meant there would be space separation made from wood and animal hide. One fire would not be enough to keep each person warm, so these slots made it so the Chinook could live without the discomfort of smog. The final main characteristic of some plank houses was a totem pole of the owner seen right when you walk into the
The totem poles are incredible works of art usually included some form of a bird on top. Usually, at the top of the totem pole proudly stands an eagle, but their styling made some of these carvings appear to be a combination of animals. Like in the totem to the right, the bird seems to have raccoon like ears. Also, The Chinook crafted canoes. These canoes were very important to the Chinooks, for if they did not create them, fishing would be difficult or impossible, trading would be much more difficult, and everywhere they would travel only by foot. The canoes were almost like cars to them, for if they did not have one, life would be much harder for …show more content…
However, The Chinooks had their own ways of keeping heat in or letting it out. First, they must keep warm in chilling rain, so they overlap wood on rooftops. This provides an easy runoff path for the rain. Also there are no windows, and a small hole makes up the entrance, thus making these structures extremely heat efficient. Consequently, without windows, the smoke from the fires inside cannot escape, so slots in the roof are incorporated letting the smoke out. An entire extended family could fit into one plank house which meant there would be space separation made from wood and animal hide. One fire would not be enough to keep each person warm, so these slots made it so the Chinook could live without the discomfort of smog. The final main characteristic of some plank houses was a totem pole of the owner seen right when you walk into the