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The Chinook Nation sought Congressional support for recognition by the legislature in 2008 with a Bill Introduced by Brian Baird. The Bill died in Congress. The unrecognized Tchinouk Indians of Oregon trace their Chinook ancestry to two Chinook women who married French Canadians traders from the Hudson's Bay Company prior to 1830. The specific ...
Jul 8, 2008 · During the first weeks of April 1811, members of the Pacific Fur Company trade with the local Chinook and Clatsop Indians while a small party scouts the north shore of the Columbia River and journeys upstream in search of a suitable building site for the first American trading post on the Columbia. The Astorians, as they are known, are the ...
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Diplomat and Broker of Furs. Six years later, in the spring of 1811, when a Pacific Fur Company contingent reached the Columbia to build a trading post, Comcomly was regarded as the leader of the lower Chinooks, with multiple wives and many slaves as proof of his prominence.
Mar 15, 1988 · The Chinook Indians: Traders of the Lower Columbia River (Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)) [Ruby M.D., Dr. Robert H., Brown, John A., Walker, Deward E., Meriwether, Stephen A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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- Robert H. Ruby, John Arthur Brown
- Dr. Robert H. Ruby M.D., John A. Brown
Today, Chinook often refers to the politically united Lower Chinook, Clatsops, Willapas, The Wahkiakums, and Kathlamets. To Lewis and Clark, the Chinooks were the people living on the north side of the Columbia River estuary. When Lewis and Clark met them, the people of Baker Bay had been trading with European ships for more than a decade.
The “Chinook” Indians in this engraving likely refers to the Chinook-proper, a Lower Chinookan group whose traditional territory was the north shore of the lower Columbia River estuary. The Chinook held a prominent place in Pacific Northwest during the pre-contact period (mid-1700s) and the early contact period (1780s-1830s).
Books. The Chinook Indians: Traders of the Lower Columbia River. Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown. University of Oklahoma Press, 1976 - Social Science - 349 pages. The Chinook Indians, who...
