The nootka tribe3/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Shortly after arriving, Revillagigedo received a letter from former viceroy Flores informing him that Martinez at Nootka Sound had seized two English ships, the Argonaut and the Princess Royal. Revillagigedo, Bodega, and his companions reached Veracruz on August 8, 1789. They sailed to New Spain, with a new viceroy, Juan Vicente de Guemes Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, Conde de Revillagigedo, accompanying them. He chose Manuel Quimper, Ramón Saavedra Guiráldez y Ordóñez, Francisco de Eliza, Salvador Fidalgo y Lopegarcía, Jacinto Caamaño Moraleja, and Salvador Menéndez Valdés. The next month the king instructed him to select six junior officers to serve under his orders. In late March 1789, Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra, who was then back in Spain, was informed of his appointment as commandant of the Naval Department of San Blas. Greg Bradsher, Senior Archivist at the National Archives at College Park.īecause of Spain’s growing concerns about its sovereignty over the Pacific Northwest in 17, the Spanish Government decided to strengthen its naval position at San Blas, in order to mount new expeditions to the Pacific Northwest. ![]() This ceremony would reenact the kidnapping of an ancestor by supernatural beings that gave him supernatural gifts and released him and would end with a potlatch.Part II of the blog series 225 Years Ago: Spanish Explorations of the Pacific Northwest and the First Spanish Settlement in Washington State, Núñez Gaona (Neah Bay), 1792 The most important ceremony was the shaman dance. The potlatch was a ceremony based on two aspects - to validate and update rank and the distribution of gifts. The social rank was reinforced by ceremony. In addition, the Nootka would make slaves out of war captives. This was determined by the principle of primogeniture (birthright of the eldest son). Society: Each Nootka was ranked in society. During warm times the men would only wear ornaments while the women would wear skirts made from cedar bark. ![]() In the coldest times people of great wealth would wear sea otter and bear furs, while people of low wealth wore robes made from raccoons, wildcats, and other small animals. The only difference between the clothing of men and women was that woman also had an additional bark apron that would extend from the waist to the knees. The Nootka would move to their principal home sites in the winter when hunting and gathering was slow.ĭress: The men and women of the Nootka wore cedar bark robes during cool time. A whole years supply could be harvested and dried within a few weeks. The Nootka also gathered crab apples, roots, berries, and ferns. ![]() In late summer the villages would move to the mouths of rivers and streams to fish for salmon with nets. Shellfish in the shore waters could be gathered with little exertion. Nootka Location: The Nootka lived along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, and the northwest portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.ĭiet: In the early summer, the Nootka would move down to the coast to fish for halibut, herring, and cod along with hunting sea mammals. Like us to add to our archives, please contact us. If the author of this article would like to make changes to it, or if you are the author of another article you would Please visit our Article Archive Index forįurther information. This article has been archived from the now-defunct MSU E-Museum ()įor educational purposes. ![]()
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