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Lower Chinook ethnographic notesBook 1938 • Ray, Verne Frederick
Chinookans of the Lower Columbia River • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This document is a detailed ethnographic study of the Chinook Indians of the Lower Chinook region (lower Columbia River and Willapa Bay in Washington State), with particular emphasis on their ...The Chinook Indians in the early 1800sessay 1975 • Ray, Verne Frederick
Chinookans of the Lower Columbia River • North America > Northwest Coast and California
In the early 1800s the United States was in a process of territorial expansion and sought to acquire the Oregon country with its profitable trade on the lower Columbia. To accomplish this, pre...The historical position of the Lower Chinook in the native culture of the Northwestarticle 1937 • Ray, Verne Frederick
Chinookans of the Lower Columbia River • North America > Northwest Coast and California
In this article Ray suggests five aspects of historical relationship between the culture of the Lower Chinook (the Chinook, Clatsop, and the Kathlamet) and the surrounding cultures particularl...