Nooksack
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Washington
The Nooksack were a little-known tribe of the Central Coast Salish, who once had close socioeconomic relations with the contiguous Upriver and Downriver Halkomelem. All the twenty permanent winter villages were river-oriented for travel and subsistence. Sea mammals were prized, along with eulachon, for oil. Land animals were hunted and trapped by men, whereas women gathered and collected roots, tubers, berries, fruits, and nuts.
The peoples of the Strait of Juan de Fuca were first contacted in 1787 by Charles Barkley, and in 1808 Simon Fraser of the North West Company charted the...
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