Cedar planks.
Chinook Indians lived in long houses made of cedar boards.
houses that look like European houses.
wooden plank houses
Long houses
wooden plank houses
Chinook Indians did not live in pit houses. They lived in plankhouses or long houses. You can see a beautiful full size replica of a Chinook plankhouse at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge in Ridgefiled, Washington USA
Chinook Indians do not harm the environment.
No, the Chinook Indians did not live in teepees. Indians on the Northwest Coast lived in cedar long houses, sometimes called plank houses. These houses were from 50 to 100 feet long and made of split cedar logs. There is a good example of a plank house at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge in Ridgefield, WA near Portland, OR.
Chinook people lived in cedar plank houses. You can visit a modern plank house at Ridgefield, Washington. The Chinook lived in long houses with more than fifty people sharing one house. In 2005, a full-scale replica of a Chinook-style cedar plank house was built at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge near Ridgefield, Washington. This area was once an area of inhabitance for the Cathlapotle tribe (a Chinook people). The Chinook Indians lived in longhouses made out of cedar wood. The houses were usually up to 70ft. long.
The Chinook Indians use hollowed out log canoe.
The Chinook Indians made hollowed out canoes from cedar logs and also built their rectangular houses. To this day they still make buildings out of cedar but these buildings are mostly for ceremonies now.
The Chinook Indians were great wood carvers. Their projects or crafts were built of wood. The Chinook Indians are original people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.