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Cedar is strong but lightweight the grain has a few knots making it easier to split into the planks needed to build homes.

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The Washington-Oregon region is home to many geographical features. For example, Washington is home to the Olympic Mountains and the Northern Cascades. Oregon, however, is apart of the Great Basin, an area of the United States that has many mountains and valleys.

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Based on the research that has been done, this tribe didn't have very many obstacles to overcome. That is until European contact their started to decrease in numbers.

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The plank house was constructed from the red cedar trees that were so abundant in their area. There were no windows in the plank house but there was roof slots that let in fresh air. Storage space was created by using wooden dividers and animal skin.

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In traditional Chinook society, people were divided into three groups. The chiefs and their families belonged to the wealthy, dominant class. The common people had fewer possessions of their own. Slaves, captured in raids or acquired by trading with other Indian groups, formed the lowest group and were considered as property. This was there main form of government.

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The Chinook had access to many animal species that occupied the forests of the Northwestern coast. Some species include: Brown Bears, Gray Wolves, and Chinook Salmon. (Yes, there is a Chinook Salmon. This is not a typo.) This however, did not impact their housing, but they used bear skin for coats.

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The Chinook tribe lived in Plank houses. They were 20 to 60 feet wide and 50 to 150 feet long.The plank houses were built over a pit that was 1-3 feet deep The Native Indians had no nails to hold it together so they used wooden planks. instead to keep the rain out they overlapped the planks.

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Here is practical womens clothes.

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Chinook-an speaking groups were numerous and prosperous. Indians from the distant interior congregated at The Dalles on the Lower Columbia to trade furs, mountain-sheep horn, and war captives for salmon, coastal shells, and other goods exchanged by the Chinook. They needed to trade because they didn't have some resources were they settled.

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Chinook Indians Clothing, Jewelry, and Body Art Facts

• Chinook men wore a breechcloth

•Women  wore short bark or grass skirts.

•For protection from rain they would sometimes wear tule rush capes. Tule Rush is a grasslike plant with stems that are triangular common in the temperate regions where they lived.

•When the weather got cold, as it often did in the Northwest, they would wear fur robes and moccasins.

•Men and women would occasionally wear basket hats made of spruce tree roots.

•These American Indians sometimes painted their faces. The design they painted depended on the occasion. For example their would be different designs for religious ceremonies, and welfare.

•Part of the Chinook culture is the decorating of their bodies and faces with tattoos.

•Chinook women wore necklaces made out of beads.

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Facts about the Northwest Coast American Indians called Chinook. A list of facts on information including where they lived and how they survived.

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Washington and Oregon are full of thick forests so most of their technologies were made from wood. There were many wolves, foxes and deer to eat, too.

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They created totem poles by there homes( homes hint that they were in a permanent settlement)
, they could be up to 60 feet tall

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The climate of Washington and Oregon is temperate, unless you're near the Olympia mountains, which were never inhabited by the Chinook. (Note: Climate is in pink. PS both climates labeled are the same thing)

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The Chinook tribe settled near the Pacific Ocean and Columbia River in Modern-day Washington and Oregon.

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This is where the Chinook tribe originally settled!