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Chinookan peoples, the Glossary

Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.^[1]

103 relations: Anthropologist, Archibald McDonald, Artificial cranial deformation, Astoria, Oregon, Bay Center, Washington, Bill Clinton, Boeing CH-47 Chinook, Boston Jane, Brian Baird, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Cape Disappointment (Washington), Catherine Troeh, Charles Marion Russell, Chehalis people, Chinook Jargon, Chinook salmon, Chinook wind, Chinook, Washington, Chinookan languages, Clackamas people, Clackamas River, Clatsop, Clatsop Plains, Columbia River, Comcomly, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Corps of Discovery, Cowlitz River, Dawes Act, Elk, Elochoman River, English language, Franz Boas, French Canadians, French Prairie, George Gibbs (ethnologist), George W. Bush, Grand Ronde Community, Grays Harbor, Grays Harbor County, Washington, Hood River (Oregon), Hudson's Bay Company, Ilwaco, Washington, Indian Claims Commission, Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, J. Christopher Stevens, Japan, Jennifer L. Holm, ... Expand index (53 more) »
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Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Archibald McDonald (3 February 1790 – 15 January 1853) was chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Langley, Fort Nisqually and Fort Colvile and one-time deputy governor of the Red River Colony.

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Artificial cranial deformation

Artificial cranial deformation or modification, head flattening, or head binding is a form of body alteration in which the skull of a human being is deformed intentionally.

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Astoria, Oregon

Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States.

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Bay Center, Washington

Bay Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pacific County, Washington, United States.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Boeing CH-47 Chinook

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

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Boston Jane

Boston Jane: An Adventure is a 2001 children's historical novel by Jennifer L. Holm.

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Brian Baird

Brian Norton Baird (born March 7, 1956) is an American psychologist and politician.

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Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.

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Cape Disappointment (Washington)

Cape Disappointment is a headland of the Pacific Northwest, located at the extreme southwestern corner of Washington, United States, on the north side of the Columbia River bar (across from Oregon) and just west of Baker Bay.

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Catherine Troeh

Catherine Herrold Troeh (January 5, 1911 – June 28, 2007) was an American historian, artist, activist and advocate for Native American rights and culture, especially in the Pacific Northwest.

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Charles Marion Russell

Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West.

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Chehalis people

The Chehalis people or Tsihalis are a Native people of western Washington state in the United States. Chinookan peoples and Chehalis people are native American tribes in Washington (state).

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Chinook Jargon

Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest.

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Chinook salmon

The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon.

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Chinook wind

Chinook winds, or simply Chinooks, are two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America: Coastal Chinooks and interior Chinooks.

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Chinook, Washington

Chinook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pacific County, Washington, United States.

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Chinookan languages

The Chinookan languages are a small family of extinct languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples.

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Clackamas people

The Clackamas Indians are a band of Chinook of Native Americans who historically lived along the Clackamas River in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Chinookan peoples and Clackamas people are native American tribes in Oregon.

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Clackamas River

The Clackamas River is an approximately tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, in the United States.

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Clatsop

The Clatsop are a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Chinookan peoples and Clatsop are native American tribes in Oregon, Oregon Coast and Terminated Native American tribes.

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Clatsop Plains

The Clatsop Plains are an area of wetlands and sand dunes between the Northern Oregon Coast Range and Pacific Ocean in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Chinookan peoples and Clatsop Plains are Oregon Coast.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Chinookan peoples and Columbia River are Columbia River Gorge.

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Comcomly

Comcomly (or Concomly) (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, Washington.

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Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in the United States is a federally recognized confederation of more than 27 Native American tribes and bands who once inhabited an extensive homeland of more than 20 million acres from northern California to southwest Washington and between the summit of the Cascades and the Pacific Ocean. Chinookan peoples and Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians are native American tribes in Oregon.

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Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon

The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (CTGR) is a federally recognized tribe of Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau. Chinookan peoples and Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon are native American tribes in Oregon.

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Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs is a federally recognized Native American tribe made of three tribes who put together a confederation. Chinookan peoples and Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are native American tribes in Oregon.

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Corps of Discovery

The Corps of Discovery was a specially established unit of the United States Army which formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that took place between May 1804 and September 1806.

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Cowlitz River

The Cowlitz River is a river in the state of Washington in the United States, a tributary of the Columbia River.

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Dawes Act

The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.

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Elk

The elk (elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.

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Elochoman River

The Elochoman River is a tributary of the Columbia River, in the U.S. state of Washington.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Franz Boas

Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".

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French Canadians

French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century; Canadiens français,; feminine form: Canadiennes françaises), or Franco-Canadians (Franco-Canadiens), are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada beginning in the 17th century.

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French Prairie

French Prairie is located in Marion County, Oregon, United States, in the Willamette Valley between the Willamette River and the Pudding River, north of Salem.

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George Gibbs (ethnologist)

George Gibbs (1815–1873) was an American ethnologist, naturalist and geologist who contributed to the study of the languages of indigenous peoples in Washington Territory.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Grand Ronde Community

The Grand Ronde Community is an Indian reservation located on several non-contiguous sections of land in southwestern Yamhill County and northwestern Polk County, Oregon, United States, about east of Lincoln City, near the community of Grand Ronde.

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Grays Harbor

Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay located north of the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state, in the United States.

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Grays Harbor County, Washington

Grays Harbor County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Hood River (Oregon)

The Hood River, formerly known as Dog River, is a tributary of the Columbia River in northwestern Oregon, United States. Chinookan peoples and Hood River (Oregon) are Columbia River Gorge.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Ilwaco, Washington

Ilwaco is a city in Pacific County, Washington, United States.

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Indian Claims Commission

The Indian Claims Commission (ICC) was a judicial relations arbiter between the United States federal government and Native American tribes.

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Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are composed of many nations and tribal affiliations, each with distinctive cultural and political identities.

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J. Christopher Stevens

John Christopher Stevens (April 18, 1960 – September 11, 2012) was an American career diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22, 2012, to September 11, 2012.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jennifer L. Holm

Jennifer L. Holm (born June 16, 1968) is an American children's writer, and recipient of three Newbery Honors and the Eisner Award.

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Kathlamet

The Kathlamet people are a tribe of Native American people with a historic homeland along the Columbia River in what is today southwestern Washington state. Chinookan peoples and Kathlamet are native American tribes in Washington (state) and Terminated Native American tribes.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. Chinookan peoples and Lewis and Clark Expedition are Columbia River Gorge.

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List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States

This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States.

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Longhouse

A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling.

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Matthew C. Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was an United States Navy officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War.

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Métis

The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.

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Moriyama Einosuke

was a samurai during the Tokugawa shogunate, and an interpreter of Dutch and English.

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Multnomah Channel

The Multnomah Channel is a distributary of the Willamette River.

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Multnomah people

The Multnomah are a tribe of Chinookan people who live in the area of Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Chinookan peoples and Multnomah people are native American tribes in Oregon.

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Neerchokikoo

Neerchokikoo is a revitalized Native American village near Portland, Oregon.

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Nemalquinner

Nemalquinner (phonetic: 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. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon in the United States about upstream of where the Willamette River enters the Columbia River.

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Onion

An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Plank house

A plank house is a type of house constructed by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, typically using cedar planks.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Quinault Indian Nation

The Quinault Indian Nation (or; QIN), formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples. Chinookan peoples and Quinault Indian Nation are native American tribes in Washington (state).

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Ranald MacDonald

Ranald MacDonald (February 3, 1824 – August 24, 1894) was the first native English-speaker to teach the English language in Japan, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters to handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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Ridgefield, Washington

Ridgefield is a city in northern Clark County, Washington, United States.

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Sagittaria latifolia

Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, duck-potato, Indian potato, or wapato.

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Sahaptin language

Sahaptin or Shahaptin, endonym Ichishkin, is one of the two-language Sahaptian branch of the Plateau Penutian family spoken in a section of the northwestern plateau along the Columbia River and its tributaries in southern Washington, northern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho, in the United States; the other language is Nez Perce or Niimi'ipuutímt.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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Sandy River (Oregon)

The Sandy River is a tributary of the Columbia River in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Chinookan peoples and Sandy River (Oregon) are Columbia River Gorge.

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Sauvie Island

Sauvie Island, in the U.S. state of Oregon, originally Wapato Island or Wappatoo Island, is the largest island along the Columbia River, at, and one of the largest river islands in the United States.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.

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Shamanism

Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.

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Shoalwater Bay Tribe

Shoalwater Bay Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States.

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Slavery

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.

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Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political).

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Staple food

A staple food, food staple, or simply staple, is a food that is eaten often and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for an individual or a population group, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinookan_peoples

Also known as Chilluckittequaw, Chinook Indian Tribe, Chinook people, Chinook peoples, Chinook tribe, Chinookan people.

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