Four Pens at Fort Clatsop: A Chinook Chief, a Hatful of Cedar Bark, and the Captains’ Doctrine of Distrust
1806-02-20The journals of February 20, 1806 offer an unusually clear demonstration of how the Lewis…
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Chinookan Peoples
Analyses (3)
View allReckoning the Continent: Mileage, Manners, and the Chinook Encounter
1805-11-17The entries of November 17, 1805, capture the Corps in a moment of pause along…
The Chinook Nation: First Encounters at the Pacific
IntroductionThe Chinook were among the most consequential Native nations encountered by the Lewis and Clark…
Heacock Archive (3)
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The Skilloots
The Skilloot were an Upper Chinookan group that spoke the Clackamas dialect of the Chinookan…
The Wahkiakums
The Wahkiakums exemplify the complexities encountered when trying to classify Chinookan peoples. Linguistically, they spoke…
The Watlalas
Watlala was the name of a key Upper Chinookan village at the Cascades of the…
