Chinook Indians

Although the question is quite vague, I assume the person posting the query is asking about the crafts of the people indigenous to the Pacific Northwest.

Each Northwest Indian nation has its own characteristic designs, of course, and those familiar with native Pacific Northwest art can tell what tribe or even what village a piece came from at a glance. Arts and crafts Northwest Indian artists are best known for include basketry (including distinctive basket hats and capes), intricate woodcarving (especially ceremonial masks and majestic totem poles), and weavings (including the unusual Chilkat blankets).

Chinook men didn't usually wear clothing at all, though some men wore a breech-clouth. Women wore short skirts made of cedar bark or grass. In the rain, the Chinooks wore tule rush capes, and in colder weather, they wore fur robes and moccasins on their feet. Later, after European influence, many people began wearing blanket robes. Both men and women sometimes wore a basket hat made of finely woven spruce root.


Today, some Chinook people still have a blanket cloak or basket hat, but they wear modern clothes like jeans instead of breechcloths.

They ate mainly salmon, and other fish, as they had an abundance of fish readily available in their homeland.

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The Chinooks were recognized until the 1950s. The relationship between the Chinooks and the US government was terminated in the the Oregon Termination Act. The Chinook got recognized again the late 1990s but it was stripped when George W. Bush took office in 2000. They are still working to regain their rightful status today.

No, they lived in longhouses.

La maman or mama (Chinook jargon loan words from French and English).

If a whale became beatched they would use the whale for blubber and food.

There are many people with Chinook ancestry, who are enrolled on the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation. There are also over 2,000 people enrolled as members of the Chinook Nation.

The Chinook Indians have lived (and still do) in their ancestral homelands for about 10,000 years. The ancestral homeland of the Chinook people is:

From West to East from the mouth of the Columbia River East to the present day Oregon city The Dalles. And from North to south from the present day Washington town of Grayland South to the Oregon town of Tillamook.

The Makah were skillful whale hunters. The Chinooks fished for river salmon. Shellfish and game were important foods too.

The chinook men used to go out and hunt for food they were respected and honored if they found food.

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The Chinook ate salmon and other fish from the Columbia River. They built their homes and canoes from the cedars in the forest. They also depended upon the river to carry them to their trading partners.

Yes, for hunting birds, water fowl, elk and deer.

They would wear wooden or shell type jewelry.

Chinooks, who lived mainly shores of the Columbia River and Willapa Bay, ate a wide variety of fish and shellfish. They hunted seals, deer and elk as well as ducks and other water fowl.

Wapato root and berries were an important part of the diet too.

A small single-story building of simple or crude construction, serving as a poor, rough, or temporary house or shelter.

they are built of readily available materials such as wood, snow, ice, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, hides and fabric.

huts are transportable and can stand most conditions of weather.

Huts may be built on the ground, underground or in-between.

Huts have been built for purposes other than as a dwelling such as storage, workshops, and teaching.

A temporary structure for sheltering troops.