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A 5 page discussion of the trade routes, economy, and jargon of these indigenous peoples. Parallels are made with contemporary U.S. economy. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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These cultures were far from primitive, the complexity of their villages and the structures those villages encompassed attest to that fact. So do other material elements of their culture.
Interestingly, many parallels can be found between the economic pathways that developed between these peoples and contemporary mainstream economy. The Chinook and
other Native American peoples of the North American Coasts are characterized, in part, on their development of extensive trade networks. Trade, in fact, was one of the prominent elements
of cultural interaction for these peoples. While the specifics of the trade networks changed over time as populations and interests changed, trade remained an important part of cultural interactions
for much of the Northwest both before and after contact with the European peoples that ultimately invaded these lands. The Chinook people, in
particular, had a complex culture and the material components that went along with that culture. These people lived a primarily sedentary lifestyle but it was punctuated by periods of
nomadic hunts and harvests. It has been posited by various scholars that because they were relatively stationary, living in developed villages with all the amenities associated with those villages,
these people had the time and the resources to develop other aspects of their culture and to produce goods that were in high demand among other indigenous groups. Likewise,
these sedentary villagers had great need for various raw resources that they could obtain in trade from others. In addition to the thriving
trade of items foraged from their respective environments, Printzer (163) observes that by around 700 B.C.E. these people had developed highly advanced arts and crafts that were traded quite readily
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