Lower Chinook ethnographic notes
Book 1938 Ray, Verne Frederick

Chinookans of the Lower Columbia RiverNorth 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 1800s
essay 1975 Ray, Verne Frederick

Chinookans of the Lower Columbia RiverNorth 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 Northwest
article 1937 Ray, Verne Frederick

Chinookans of the Lower Columbia RiverNorth 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...