Coast Salish Peoples - Hunting Fishing

I really like learning about the way the Native  people would hunt and fish because I like to fish too.

The peoples of this area were very rich in food.
Foods of all sorts, was very abundant.

They are hunters and gatherers and  they grew very little food.


They were extremely skill fisherman and hunters.
Fish were caught with nets, rakes, traps, spears harpoons and hooks.
Hooks were made of wood, whale bone or shell.
The rake like tools were used to gather herring in the early spring.





36 kinds of  ocean animals were used by them, some for food others for artificial light, fuel, tools and  decorations.
Salmon was their main abundant food source. The word for salmon was used for all types of fish.
Olachen also know as the candle fish. It was used as a light source by sticking a wick through the drying fish. When needed they just lit  the wick for light. Another funny thing I learned about the
Olachen is that some  people used the abundance of oils in the candle fish to put all over themselves instead of clothing this made them water proof.







They would also hunt a  variety of birds and animals.  Deer was the most useful animal they hunted. They would also eat beaver, otter, bear, elk, and mountain sheep.
Furs and skins were used for clothing and tools.
Seal skin could be made water tight and used in fishing as a floating buoy.