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Provides an introduction to Chinookan culture and research and is a foundation for future work

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables, and Online Materials

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Chinook People Today / Tony A. Johnson

Part I. The Chinookan World

1. Environment and Archaeology of the Lower Columbia / Elizabeth A. Sobel, Kenneth M. Ames, and Robert J. Losey

2. Cultural Geography of the Lower Columbia / David V. Ellis

3. Ethnobiology: Nonfishing Subsistence and Production / D. Ann Trieu Gahr

4. Aboriginal Fisheries of the Lower Columbia River / Virginia L. Butler and Michael A. Martin

5. Lower Columbia Trade and Exchange Systems / Yvonne Hajda and Elizabeth A. Sobel

6. Houses and Households / Kenneth M. Ames and Elizabeth A. Sobel

7. Social and Political Organization / Yvonne Hajda

8. Chinookan Oral Literature / Dell Hymes and William R. Seaburg

9. Lower Columbia Chinookan Ceremonialism / Robert T. Boyd

10. Lower Columbia River Art / Tony A. Johnson and Adam McIsaac

Part II . After Euro-American Contact

11. Lower Chinookan Disease and Demography /Robert T. Boyd

12. The Chinookan Encounter with Euro-Americans in the Lower Columbia River Valley / William L. Lang

13. Chinuk Wawa and Its Roots in Chinookan / Henry B. Zenk and Tony A. Johnson

14. “Now You See Them, Now You Don’t”: Chinook Tribal Affairs and the Struggle for Federal Recognition / Andrew Fisher and Melinda Marie Jetté

15. Honoring Our tilixam: Chinookan People of Grand Ronde / David G. Lewis, Eirik Thorsgard, and Chuck Williams

16. Chinookan Writings: Anthropological Research and Historiography / Wayne Suttles and William L. Lang

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

About the Author

Robert T. Boyd is a research anthropologist at Portland State University and the author of The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence. Kenneth M. Ames is professor emeritus of anthropology at Portland State University and lead author of Peoples of the Northwest Coast. Tony A. Johnson is chair of the Chinook Nation. For more information on Robert T. Boyd, go to http://roberttboyd.com/

Reviews

"It is the sort of book that will be both indispensable to any Chinookan scholar and the subject of envy by historians beyond. Although the aspiration is orthodox, and as a result expansive, this project is clearly an attempt to move beyond the constraints of the early culture-area overview, most visibly in the inclusion of Chinookan authors."
*BC Studies*

"This excellent book...is divided into two parts, one focusing on what is known of the Chinook precontact, the other on their postcontact world. With chapters ranging from the environment, subsistence, and exchange to social organization and culture, part 1 has something for all. Of note, and certainly heartbreaking, are the chapters in the second part that discuss the politico-legal situation and history of the Chinookan peoples. Highly recommended."
*Choice*

"[The book] illustrates how rich and effective tribal and academic collaborations can be. Twenty-one tribal professionals and scholars (anthropologists, archaeologists, historians) contributed deeply researched chapters to this collection, and together their entries expand existing knowledge about and interpretations of Chinook peoples."
*Columbia: The Journal of Northwest History*

"This mature and welcome work provides lifelong academic insights concerning complex hunter-gatherers, regional social networks, ethnogenesis of modern Chinooks, comparisons of highly varied research, and strong voices of living Chinooks."
*Western Historical Quarterly*

"With coverage that ranges from 10,000 or more years to the present, Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia explores the Chinookan world before and after contact, the advent and impacts of disease, demographic shifts, fishing and hunting practices and rights, treaty-making, and legal decisions—just to name a few of the topics under investigation. Compellingly, what is revealed is not always what one might expect."
*Journal of the West*

"In this impressive volume, the editors bring together the foremost scholars in the field….[A] tour de force examination of ancient and modern “ethnogensis”….This study is tight, focused, well-organized, comprehensive, even encyclopedic (in the best sense of the word)"
*Pacific Historical Review*

"Chinookan Peoples draws upon an impressive body of research by some of the most eminent scholars in the field. . . . [A] starting point for understanding the most important elements of Chinookan culture and history."
*Pacific Northwest Quarterly*