#chinookan

Film still courtesy of Jáaji Approx.

Kashhila--Wishham. Male Chinookan Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, with pompadour, fur wrapped braids, bead choker around neck, beaded buckskin shirt, fur sash over left shoulder - Curtis - 1910

Chinookan peoples include several groups of indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages. In the early 19th century, the Chinookan-speaking peoples resided along the Lower and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) (″Big River″) from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream to the river's mouth, and along adjacent portions of the coasts, from Tillamook Bay of present-day Oregon in the south, north to Willapa Bay in southwest Washington.