Chinookan

Chinookan refers to several groups of Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States . In the early 19th Century , the Chinookan peoples lived along the lower and middle Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington . The Chinookan tribes were those encountered by the Lewis And Clark Expedition in 1805 on the lower Columbia.

CHINOOKAN GROUPS

Chinookan groups include:

Most surviving Chinookan natives live in the towns of Bay Center , Chinook , and Ilwaco in southwest Washington .

FAMOUS CHINOOKANS

Ranald MacDonald ( 3 February , 1824 – August 24 , 1894 ), a half-Chinookan, born in Fort Astoria, Oregon , to Archibald MacDonald , a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, and Raven, a Chinook Indian "princess" {Link without Title} , was the first American to teach English in Japan , in 1847-1848, including educating Einosuke Moriyama , one of the chief interpreters that would later handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate .

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