it is a representation of their most used food source, the Chinook salmon
A Chinook may be able to lift a small house made of lightweight materail. If the house is made out of brick or wood then its impossible. It can lift other objects like cars, trucks,etc.
Well there is several like the Chinook tribe.
houses that look like European houses.
the Chinook tribe lived in longhouses made out of wood.
The site linked below has old photos of the Chinookan people.
Cedar planks.
Like Ushers house should look like... Ushers house.
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.
Chinooks do not have totem pole like the tribes in Canada and Alaska have. The did have decorated poles inside the house though.
The first Chinook people hatched from thunder bird eggs in the time when the animals thought they were people. The Chinook people have been a tribe for 10,000 years... and still are!
Chinook Indians traveled in canoes that were carved from cedar logs.