At the Native Heritage Museum we were able to see traditional Athabascan homes. This tribe hunted and trapped animals for food. At certain times of year, they left their homes and went to the mouths of rivers where salmon were running. They used a contraption called a fish wheel to capture salmon. They lived in the forests, so they made their homes of logs. The bigger cabin above is what their homes looked like. The other little cabin on stilts looks like a tree house, doesn't it? I wondered if they made tree houses for their kids, but that is not what it is for. Can you guess? It has to do with the fact that they would leave the cabin for weeks at a time to go capture salmon. These were called caches. When they were gone, they stored all of their food in the cache to keep it safe from bears that might wander by and want a snack.
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