Because Chinooks were very good traders. They had lots of practice at it and always learned from their mistakes and wins.
Chinooks were fairly peaceful. As traders they were friendly with many other tribes.
The Chinook people were good traders and the people who hosted Lewis & Clark in the winter of 1805 and 1806
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.
Chinooks did not go to war very often. They were expert traders and needed to be friends with all tribes.
Chinook Indians do not harm the environment.
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.
Before modern times Chinook Indians bathed daily in a river.
The Chinook Indians take their name from the village they lived in on the Columbia river.
The chinook indians and the white settlers got alng by trading with eachother
the Chinook Indians used bows and arrows spears and anything they could get their hands on.