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    Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages. Since at...
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    The Chinookan languages were a small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples. Although the last...
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    ties with the Chinookan peoples through "forcing our Competitors to reduce their prices." This continued value placed in the Chinookans by the British...
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    corpus were also published as Clackamas Chinook Performance Art. The Chinookan peoples practiced slavery, likely learned from the Nuu-chah-nulth as it was...
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  • dialect of the Upper Chinookan language in the Oregon Penutian family. The Multnomah people are a band of the Chinookan peoples who originally resided...
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    Society Boyd, Robert T.; Ames, Kenneth A.; Johnson, Tony A. (2015), Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia, Seattle: University of Washington Press, ISBN 9780295995236...
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    valuable species of Pacific salmon. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other vernacular names for the species include king salmon, Quinnat...
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    the native people living in the area at the time of the coming of Europeans, the Clackamas people, who are part of the Chinookan peoples. Clackamas County...
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  • Indigenous people in Oregon and Washington State. Chinookan peoples, several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Chinookan languages,...
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    decorations. Certain shells served as currency. Like others of the Chinookan peoples, Clackamas practiced head flattening. From infancy, one's head was...
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    central Trinidadian people of Freeport) Tyee, a tribal chief of the Chinookan peoples in the Pacific Northwest of the present-day United States Cacique...
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    Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest. This group was separated geographically from the northern branch by tribes of Chinookan peoples who occupied...
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    (1765–1830) was a Native American leader of the Lower Chinook, a group of Chinookan peoples indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, who inhabited the area near Ilwaco...
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  • United States, an unincorporated community a tribal chief of the Chinookan peoples in the Pacific Northwest of the United States Tyee High School, SeaTac...
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    Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau, also referred to by the phrase Indigenous peoples of the Plateau, and historically called the Plateau Indians...
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    inhabited for thousands of years, including by the Multnomah band of Chinookan peoples long before European contact, as evidenced by the nearby Cathlapotle...
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  • Nemalquinner (category Chinookan tribes)
    nimáɬx̣ʷinix) was a Native American settlement inhabited by a band of Chinookan peoples on the east bank of the Willamette River near what is now the St....
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    James Douglas (governor) (category Pre-Confederation British Columbia people)
    While he commanded Fort Vancouver, he denounced the enslavement of Chinookan peoples. Douglas supported Simpson's plans of making a settlement with the...
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    word meaning people, tribe, or family, and the name is intended to honor the Multnomah, Cascade, Clackamas, and other Chinookan peoples who lived in the...
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    lucrative Celilo Falls fishing grounds with other Sahaptin and Upper Chinookan peoples. Like other Columbia Gorge communities, they produced powdered salmon...
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  • The Multnomah people, a Chinookan people who lived in the area of modern Portland, Oregon, United States Multnomah, the middle Chinookan dialect of the...
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    Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America (category History of indigenous peoples of the Americas)
    contact, and was present among several native peoples from the region, including the Chinookan peoples and the Tlingit, who seem to have had their own...
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    Tribes The Chinook Indian Nation of Oregon and Washington is a group of Chinookan people who were briefly recognized by the U.S. Government in 2001, but this...
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    body. The original inhabitants of the Scappoose Bay area were the Chinookan peoples who hunted, fished, and gathered in the area. During the 19th century...
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    Chinookan town of Cathlapotle, then a settlement of 700–800 people, with at least 14 substantial plank houses. The community's ties to the Chinookan people...
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    Chinookan town of Cathlapotle, then a settlement of 700–800 people, with at least 14 substantial plank houses. The community's ties to the Chinookan people...
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    predates the arrival of Europeans and probably the local ascendance of Chinookan peoples, but has resisted more precise dating or cultural affiliation. The...
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  • the Chincha people, who once wore its fur. Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) salmon Chinook Jargon Named after the Chinookan peoples Chipmunk (Tamias...
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  • a Clatsop Chinookan leader alive in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He married a daughter of Comcomly, the most prominent Chinookan headman on...
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    Clatsop (redirect from Clatsop people)
    The Clatsop are a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In the early 19th century they inhabited...
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