Mag. 5- NW Coast Peoples

a gathering of people that includes feasting and gifts

• potlatch

• textile

• agriculture

• epidemic

a type of cloth or woven fabric

• cradleboard

• textile

• shaman

• weir

an area of land set aside for Native American settlement

• extinction

• agriculture

• reservation

• spirit quest

an object, believed to have spiritual significance, used as the symbol of a clan

• raw material

• weir

• cradleboard

• totem

a rite of passage in which young people discover their life's purpose

• spirit field

• spirit quest

• epidemic

• monarch spirit

the basic material from which a product is made

• raw material

• extinction

• immunity

• agriculture

resistance to disease or illness

• shaman

• epidemic

• immunity

• disease

a state in which all members of a group or species have died

• immunity

• epidemic

• extinction

• shaman

a board to which an infant is strapped, used primarily in Native American cultures

• totem

• clan

• wood

• cradleboard

an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly

• epidemic

• weir

• reservation

• textile