The master traders of the lower Columbia, who greeted Lewis & Clark in 1805.
Not an ending: after failed treaties (the unratified 1851 Tansy Point Treaty, failed 1853 Chehalis River talks) the United States organized the Oregon and Washington Territories over Chinookan land, and in 1856 relocated many Chinookans to the Grand Ronde reservation; those who refused were excluded from the treaties ceding the region and never received a reservation of their own. Chinookan descendants continued via the Chinook Indian Nation (constitution written 1925), which was briefly federally recognized from January 2001 to July 2002 before recognition was revoked, and via enrolled members of the federally recognized Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Chinook — the shape you scrub through changes in 200 BC · 1831.
A collaborative, tribally engaged study of how the unrecognized Chinook Indian Nation sustains its identity, directly covering the recognition fight and Willapa Bay community.
The definitive modern scholarly volume on Chinookan archaeology, ethnography, trade, villages, and history, co-edited with Chinook tribal leadership.
The authoritative account of the epidemics, including the 1830s 'fever and ague' that killed roughly 90% of the lower Columbia peoples.
The standard narrative history of the Chinook as traders, from Concomly and the fur trade through the loss of federal recognition fights.