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Traditionally TRADE with other indians and with Europeans
they trade with other indians
They needed a language to make trade easier
Very few. Chinooks were peaceful because it was good for trade.
Chinook Indians do not harm the environment.
Chinook jargon was spoken from California to Alaska. It made it possible for many diverse people to communicate and carry out trade.
Chinook Indians are mainly know for their skill as traders. A simplified version of the Chinook language, Chinook Jargon, was a widly used trade language along the West Coast of the United Sates and Canada. Chinook canoes are some of the finest in world and the hull design has been copied many times for modern water craft.
The Chinook Indians use hollowed out log canoe.
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.
Chinook Indians lived in long houses made of cedar boards.
The Chinook Indians take their name from the village they lived in on the Columbia river.
Before modern times Chinook Indians bathed daily in a river.