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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.
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Apr 7, 2021 · The Chinook Indian Nation’s 120-year fight for sovereignty. Federal recognition provides tribes with critical health care and education. But there are nations the U.S. refuses to recognize....
Recognition. The Chinook Indian Nation has been fighting for federal recognition for over 120 years. Yet, in recent decades, the U.S. government has continually failed to recognize us as a sovereign nation. As a result, we have been denied access to healthcare, housing, and educational opportunities. The decision to restore our recognition now ...
A landmark legal victory affirms the Chinook Indian Nation as the rightful heirs to the Lower Chinook & Clatsop people and ancestral lands.
The Chinook Cultural Committee’s mission is to study, learn, and teach the traditions and ways of our ancestors. The primary focus is to revitalize these lifeways and to educate our community, interested individuals, institutions, government agencies, and the world.
- Access to ‘life-changing’ Healthcare
- Scaling Up Cultural Preservation Efforts
- ‘The Big Goal Is to Feed Our People’
Without federal recognition, Chinook tribal citizens can’t access medical and dental care provided by the Indian Health Service (IHS), a cornerstone of the government’s fulfillment of the trust responsibility it assumed when it negotiated for the lands now known as the United States. That unique political relationship has been reiterated by legisla...
The tribe’s annual salmon ceremony, held in June this year, may have been Abing’s last chance to fully participate. “It’s about bringing in that first salmon, how you kill it, who can prepare it and observing taboos on who can eat it, depending on where you are in your stage of life,” Robinson said. “You eat all of it, so there’s only bones. Then y...
Chinook people don’t have the guaranteed right to hunt, fish and gather traditional foods, including for their namesake salmon – not even for their own subsistence. Federal recognition wouldn’t immediately restore those rights, because the Chinook treaties were never ratified. What’s important, Johnson says, is that Congress doesn’t require the Chi...
Chinook renew ties with hereditary homeland. By OLIVIA PALMER , EO Media Group, Oct 25, 2023 SEASIDE — Rachel Cushman has a clear message: the Chinook Indian Nation is still here. That message resounded Saturday as dozens gathered at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center to witness the signing of a historic memorandum of agreement between ...
Center for Columbia River History channel. Promised Land Documentary Promised Land is an award-winning documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the restoration of treaty rights they’ve long been denied.
