e women to eat anything but dried fish. The Tahitian boys are cut on the penis and feast is given to them. The Nootka boys are kept busy learning trades of their elders hunting and fishing until time to be married. There are religious rituals for both societies. The Nootka belief system is one based on super natural (magic) as supposed to religion. There is no worship and it would be an error to call the spirit gods. The medicine men (shaman) are often of humble origin and are though to have great powers and intelligence. The Nootka fear the dead and believe in spirit contamination and black magic. This is seemed as a crime against society but the Shaman usually has a cure for any injustice of that sort.These two very complex society shares many striking differences but the similarities are so visible that the differences seem to disappear. The technological awareness and ability to create for necessity is at least magnificent they live in peace with themselves thought they will fight for whatever they think is right. Their substance of technology offers mainly due to the difference with the climate and availability of diversified nutritional based. The similarity in the social organization proves that the only main difference is their characterization. The Nootka as hunter-gatherers and the Tahitians as intensive farmers lies in the ability of big game as a diversified food source...
