coastal tribes
Shore-dwelling communities
Coastal tribes are indigenous peoples whose traditional territories and ways of life center on ocean shorelines, bays, and river mouths.
The term appears most often in discussions of Pacific Northwest nations like the Makah or Quinault, whose cultures developed around fishing, whaling, and maritime trade.
Coastal tribes have treaty-protected fishing rights.
The phrase emphasizes geographic and cultural distinction from inland peoples.
- whalingHunting large sea mammals
- MicronesiaPacific island region
- Pacific NorthwestCoastal American region, northward
- dugout canoesVessels carved from trunks
- fishingCatching aquatic creatures
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- seafaring peoplessailors, navigators, Vikings, fishermen, Polynesians
- California historystatehood, Spanish colonization, Spanish mission, gold rush, Sutter's Mill
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- Indian OceanArabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Andaman Sea