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- The Chinook were quick to establish themselves as the intermediaries between the European traders and the Chinookans living up the Columbia and Willamette rivers. During this period, salmon pemmican, wapato, and elk rawhide for making armor evolved from intense inter-Indian trade to major industries.
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The Chinook Indian Nation, consisting of the five westernmost tribes of Chinookan peoples, Lower Chinook, Clatsop, Willapa, Wahkiakum, and Kathlamet is currently (2024) working to restore federal recognition. The Chinook Nation gained Federal Recognition on January 3, 2001 from the Department of Interior under President Bill Clinton.
Nov 20, 2012 · Both the Chinook Native Indians and white traders tried to overcome communication difficulties by creating trade jargons combining words from both Native Indian and European languages. The Northwest Native Indians used, what became referred to as the Chinook Jargon.
Due to their territory being along the Columbia river a good portion of their trading involved fish, mainly salmon, but they were also known for trading canoes as well as participating in slave trade. Chinook Indians Salmon Fishing on the Columbia River.
Small wonder Lewis and Clark expected to find a trading ship at the mouth of the Columbia. Being there at the wrong season, they didn’t see any, but on 1 January 1806, Clark listed thirteen ships that the Chinook and Clatsop said visited regularly (see The Empty Anchorage). “Great Higlers in Trade”
Jun 28, 2019 · Excelling in both canoe navigation and trade along the river and coast alike, Chinook people led trade historically between native people upriver, and into Alaska along the Pacific Coast.
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 ...
Apr 7, 2021 · It’s not far from the remnants of a village also called Cathlapotle, a major Chinookan trading town established around 1450 that once held as many as 16 plankhouses.
