Book
The Chinook Indians: traders of the Lower Columbia River
University of Oklahoma Press • 138 • Published In 1976 • Pages: xvi, 349 , plates
By: Ruby, Robert H., Brown, John Arthur.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed culture history of the lower Chinookan peoples, particularly of the Chinooks proper and the closely related Clatsops, living near the mouth of the Columbia River in the states of Washington and Oregon. Although the general range of coverage in this work runs from the fifth century A.D. to the mid twentieth century, most of the data in this document is time specific to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The major ethnographic emphasis in this study is on European/American-Chinookan trade relations, especially in regard to the fur trade and the long term effects it had on Indian society. Interspersed throughout the text are brief commentaries on such topics as political organization, sickness, slavery, settlements, hunting and fishing activities, burial customs, etc.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Body alterations
- External trade
- Retail marketing
- Slavery
- Community heads
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chinookans of the Lower Columbia River
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1702-1900 centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lower Chinook region, southern Washington and northern Oregon, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-336)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75040148
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chinook Indians