The People of the Northwest Coast: Geography: The people of the Northwest Coast lived in a narrow section of coastal land stretching from Washington State to Northern British Columbia, and into Alaska. Temperatures in these areas were moderate, which gained the Northwest Coast peoples a lot of advantages. The environment of the Northwest Coast of Canada was very diverse, and often extreme. It included: Rugged coastline (Pacific Ocean), wide and narrow beaches, deep fjords, mountains (near coast)
The quest to gain international agreement on ethical and legal norms for regulation of whaling has had a long and troubled history. The modern phase of global concern over whaling ethics and conservationist management originated in 1946, when the International Convention on Regulation of Whaling was signed. Thus the International Whaling Commission was created. The International Whaling Commission was designed to control and mandate the whaling industry. From it’s beginning as simply a whalers club
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “we learn geology the morning after the earthquake.” Fortunately for those living along the San Andreas Fault line in California, there are people behind the scenes, from geologists to city and emergency planners, who have no intention of waiting that long. The San Andreas Fault Line, first identified in 1895 by Professor Andrew Lawson of UC Berkeley, is an 800-mile fracture in the Earth’s surface, stretching from the Gulf of California to San Francisco, and is one
The two human adaptive strategies I chose to focus on are pastoralism and hunting and gathering. Specifically, I will be looking at the case studies of the pastoral society Maasai and the hunter-gatherer society Nuu-Chah-Nulth; who are also called the Nootka. The differences between the two are vast though there are similarities in how their strategies connect with the natural world. Furthermore, both strategies include complex cultural systems that are maintained though resource guided social organizations
More than 12,000 years ago ancestors hiked from Asia to claim what is now known as the Americas. By 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million Native Americans inhabited the land we call ours. More specifically, 10 million people lived in what we call the United States. Native Americans have many different groups within the broad culture. These groups of people share similar living arrangements and personal characteristics. These groups are: the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northeast