Multnomah people
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The Multnomah are a tribe of Chinookan people who live in the area of Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Multnomah villages were located throughout the Portland basin and on both sides of the Col
The Columbia River
Multnomah Falls, where legend says the Chief's daughter sacrificed herself.
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
Multnomah people
…The Multnomah are a tribe of Chinookan people who live in the area of Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Multnomah villages were located throughout the Portland basin and on both sides of the…
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