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The term Pacific Northwest is largely used in the American context. At one point, the region had the highest population density of a region inhabited by Indigenous peoples in Canada. [1] [2] [3] Chief Anotklosh of the Taku Tribe of the Tlingit people, ca. 1913 Painting representing "Three Young Chinook Men" by George Catlin
Download as PDF; Printable version ... — in the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest of North ... and Siuslaw Indians; Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde ...
Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the upper and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) ("Great River") from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent ...
The Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw are a highly stratified bilineal culture of the Pacific Northwest. They are many separate nations, each with its own history, culture and governance. The Nations commonly each had a head chief, who acted as the leader of the nation, with numerous hereditary clan or family chiefs below him.
Villages were abandoned and populations consolidated together, as tribes began to attempt to negotiate with the American government. [10] In an 1851 treaty, the Clatsop tribe proposed to cede 90 percent of their land to the U.S. Government. This treaty was one of many in the Northwest that was never ratified by Senate. Unlike other tribes, the ...
The Nuxalk people (Nuxalk: Nuxalkmc; pronounced ), also referred to as the Bella Coola, Bellacoola or Bilchula, are an Indigenous First Nation of the Pacific Northwest Coast, centred in the area in and around Bella Coola, British Columbia. Their language is also called Nuxalk. Their on-reserve tribal government is the Nuxalk Nation.
The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast — in the western coastal region of the Pacific Northwest, in North America For the peoples of the eastern inland Pacific Northwest, see Category: Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau .
"A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest" . University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Warren W. Aney and Alisha Hamel, "Oregon Military ", Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, ISBN 978-1-4671-1658-9 [5]