Due to the abundance of natural resources and the affluence of most Northwest tribes, there was plenty of leisure time to create art.

Most people associate hallucinogenic mushrooms with the Southwest," he said, "but the Northwest tribes are familiar with fourteen varieties.

The Sahewamish are a Northwest Native American tribe of the Lushootseed people.

Northwest tribes have argued that Kennewick Man is their ancestor and should be reburied according to ritual and tradition without further study by scientists.

Among losses due to diseases, a smallpox epidemic broke out among the Northwest tribes in 1862, killing roughly half the affected native populations.

The vigil was endorsed by several Northwest tribes at a recent regional meeting in Idaho, Mr. Sampsel said.

They say they want just enough to revive a cultural ceremony that virtually every Northwest tribe celebrated: the First Fish ritual.

He is known best for assisting Northwest tribes with tribal land-claim settlements and is viewed as pioneer in the field of ethnohistory.

A smallpox epidemic broke out among the Northwest tribes in 1862, killing roughly half of the native population.

Anthropologists estimate there were 125 distinct Northwest tribes and 50 dialects in existence before the arrival of Euro-Americans in this region.