Chinook Story

• Cathlapotle Archaeological Site Description Excerpt from Archaeological Investigations at 45CL1 Cathlapotle (1991-1996).

• Excerpts from John Boit’s Log, first mate to the American Captain Robert Gray, May 1792

• Gabriel Franchere describes Chinook salmon and sturgeon fishing, ca. 1810, an excerpt from Adventures at Astoria, 1810-1814

• Lieutenant William Broughton’s Encounter at Cathlapotle in October 1792. Downloadable .pdf 

• James Swan describes Chinook fishing implements, ca. 1857, an excerpt from Northwest Coast

• Digital Images of selected treaties made at Tansy Point between Anson Dart and tribes of western Oregon Country in August 1851, including those who now comprise the Chinook Indian Nation: the Clatsop, Kathlamet, Lower, Wahkiakum, and Willapa bands of the Chinook Tribe of Indians and the Konaack and Klatskanie.  Downloadable .pdf of each treaty with an explanatory headnote. 

• Lower Chinook Ethnographic Notes by Verne Ray, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, Volume 7, No. 2, 1938: Introduction; pp. 29-165. An ethnographic account of the Lower Chinookan people based on historical sources and interviews with Emma Millet Luscier and Isabelle Aubichon Bertrand.

• Agreements between Washington Hall and the Lower Band of the Chinook Tribe of Indians, including an Oregon Provisional Government Territorial Land Claim, Feb. 27, 1848, at Middle Village; Washington Hall Agreements with the Chinook, Sept. 12, 1848 and Feb. 24, 1851, and Washington Hall Affidavit to County Clerk, November 4, 1851, regarding settlement at Chenook Point.

• HR 3084, To Restore Federal Recognition to the Chinook Nation, and for other purposes, the restoration bill sponsored by Representative Brian Baird on June 26, 2009

• Laura Bush sent a thank you note for the gifts of a model canoe and a string of beads to Mr. Gary Johnson, Chinook Tribal Chairman, Chinook Indian Country after he attended a special Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery program at the White House, by invitation of the president.