Chinook Tribe

Chinook Tribe

Chinook Tribe

This is the Chinook tribe logo. There logo is always animals because they worship animals.

• The Chinook are a group of North American Indians from the Northwest Coast who spoke Chinookan.
• They lived in what is now Washington and Oregon, mainly around the Columbia River and Pacific Ocean.
• The Chinook Nation is not federally recognized by the United States.
• Chinook people do not have a reservation or live on tribal lands.
• They live scattered throughout towns and villages in Oregon and Washington state.
• Although most Chinook people belong to the Chinook Nation, not all of them do.

Chinook Tribe Foods

Chinook Tribe Foods

This is the Chinook salmon. Chinook salmon dies after it lays eggs. It lays up to 2000-5000 eggs and then dies.

• The Chinook people are really not hunters, they are mostly fishers.
• They use harpoons and nets to get the fish.
• Mostly they usually eat salmon. They also hunt other sea mammels and fish from there canoes.
• And then they also hunt animals but not as much as they catch fish.
• Whenever the chinooks do hunt, they hunt small animals like deer and birds.
• Some Chinook women gathers clams and shellfish, seaweed, berries, and roots.

How They Live

The men and woman have very important job in the tribe. The men hunt for food for the tribe and the woman care for the tribe.

Chief Comcomly

This is chief Comcomly. He is the leader off the Chinook tribe. He died because of a fever that spreaded around the tribe.

• Comcomly was born in 1765.
• Comcomly was a leader of the Native American Chinookan people.
• Referred to as "Chief or "King" Comcomly in contemporaneous journals, he was the principal leader of the Chinook Confederacy, which extended along the Columbia River from the Cascade Range to the Pacific Ocean.
• Comcomly died in 1830 when a fever epidemic struck his tribe.

Chief Tumulth

Chief Tumulth

• Kalliah Tumulth, also called Indian Mary, was a Cascade (Watlala)
• Chinook was born in October 1854 to a signer of one of the main Oregon treaties.
• Kalliah was a strong, independent woman who, when a little girl, suffered the hanging of her father Chief Tumulth and eight other Cascade leaders by the U.S. Army.
• She endured considerable racism and hardships and resisted the movement of the tribes to reservations so that she could remain in her traditional homeland by the Cascade Rapids in the western Columbia River Gorge.

Chinook Wear

• Traditionally some Chinook men wore a breechcloth however most did not wear any clothing at all.
• Women usually wore short bark or grass skirts.
• For protection from rain they would sometimes wear tule rush capes.
• Tule Rush is a grasslike plant with stems that are triangular (a sedge) common in the temperate regions where they lived.
• When the weather got cold, as it often did in the Northwest, they would wear fur robes and moccasins. Men and women would occasionally wear basket hats made of woven spruce tree roots.
• These American Indians sometimes painted their faces.
• The design they painted depended on the occasion.
• For example their would be different designs for religious ceremonies, warfare, and mourning.
• Part of the Chinook culture is the decorating of their bodies and faces with tattoos.
• Chinook women wore necklaces made out of beads.

The Chinooks Languge

The Chinooks Languge

• Chinook Jargon (also known as chinuk wawa, or chinook wawa) is a revived American indigenous language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest.
• It spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and Washington, then British Columbia and as far as Alaska and Yukon Territory, sometimes taking on characteristics of a creole language.
• It is related to, but not the same as, the aboriginal language of the Chinook people, upon which much of its vocabulary is based.

Glossary

Chinook: A member of an American Indian people originally inhabiting the region around the lower Columbia River in Oregon and Washington.

Contemporaneous: Existing or occurring in the same period of time.

Chinookan: The language of the Chinook Indians.

Confederacy: A league or alliance, especially of confederate states.

Mourning: The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.