Chinookan peoples
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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 least 11,500 BCE, Chinookan peoples and their an
Chinook people meet the Corps of Discovery on the Lower Columbia, October 1805 (by Charles M. Russell, 1905)
Chinook child undergoing process of flattening the head.
Cathlapotle Plankhouse, a full-scale replica of a Chinook-style cedar plankhouse erected in 2005 at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge; the original and thirteen others like like it housed more than 1200 Chinook people at Cathlapotle village in 1806
Illustration of the interior of a Chinookan plankhouse
Chinook salmon
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The Chinook salmon is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other vernacular names for the species include king salmon, quinna
Chinookan peoples
…Tsin-is-tum, "Princess Jennie Michel", a Native American folklorist. Called "Last of the Clatsops." Chinook salmon Chinook (wind…
Chinook Salmon Adult Male
A male Chinook in his spawning phase
Chinook salmon tail, showing distinctive combination of black spots and silver
Ocean-caught Chinook salmon