#Chinook

[pnwnativeplants]

"A federal district court recently ruled that a large portion of Electron Dam must be removed from the Puyallup River in Washington because the dam harms fish protected under the Endangered Species Act.

Electron Dam has been harming Chinook salmon, steelhead, and trout for nearly 100 years. In 2020, the company that operates the dam tried to replace a spillway and botched the job, creating more hazards for the fish. Earthjustice went to court to press for the new segment’s removal on behalf of the Puyallup Tribe. Salmon and other native fish play a critical role in the Tribe’s culture and economy. With this part of the dam gone, the river will flow naturally for the first time in almost a century."

[lockheed-martin-unofficial]

CHINOOK RATCHET CHINOOK RATCHET

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@MAC_VSOG via X

[mammoth-clangen]

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It's crimmus! Merry chrimbus! Merry chrysler!

I really like this moon! I think it's one of my best as far as page flow and pretty backgrounds go, I used references of bears at salmon runs in Alaska c:

Also yes! Salmon time! I love them so much they're cool af I watched documentaries to work out which ones the Kindred should be hunting and then kinda just went with "this was 12ka ago and it could be anything so I'll just make them plausibly salmon" cx

*cracks knuckles* H'okay so. Just letting you know that there are 4 parts to this moon and it only goes downhill from here. If you can't deal with characters in a lot of distress then you may wanna skip the next page and read it at a later date when you can! I'm still working on part 4 bc it's kinda a lot and im also anxious bc i changed up the formatting and Even Though Kindred Is Mine and For Me, im worried everyone will hate it c':

Kindred of the Mammoth is on Comicfury as well!

[rebeccathenaturalist]

For those following the Chinook Indian Nation's work toward regaining federal recognition, this is an important endorsement. I posted a while back about a petition for the state of Washington to give the now-closed Naselle Youth Camp to the Chinook. The NYC is on unceded Chinook land, and specifically the portion of land the Chinook asked to retain almost two centuries ago as part of an unfulfilled treaty with the U.S. government.

A state task force formed to determine the fate of the NYC has officially recommended the NYC be given to the Chinook Indian Nation. Not only would this put the facility into the hands of people who will make excellent use of it, but the Chinook have also stated their intention to restore the on-site wastewater treatment facility and salmon hatchery. The former would additionally be a boon to the entirety of Pacific County, which currently ships its wastewater all the way to Centralia, WA, over 100 miles away from southern portions of the county.

If the NYC is indeed given to the Chinook, this will be an important statement that can be used to pressure the U.S. government to restore their federal recognition. To find out ways you can help the Chinook in this effort, please visit ChinookJustice.org.

[zipperpillar]

This guy does not know where tf he is… i imagine bee buzzing sounds whenever i see these guys in the air

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Rusty and I'me

The main characters for my in development comic RUSTHUND

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Wabutt - Double Walled Basket

Karen Reed (Chinook, Skokomish, Puyallup)

red cedar bark, yellow cedar, red cedar, sweetgrass, flax dye from new zealand. 8” x 11” x 11”

[doglover43]

chinook 🐾

[whencyclopedia]

Chinookan Peoples, Creation Story, & Blue Jay Tales

The Chinook people (Chinookan peoples) are a Native American nation of the US Pacific Northwest who inhabited the region of modern-day southwest Washington state and northern Oregon; many Chinookans still live there. Among their most famous stories are the Chinook Creation Tale and the Blue Jay tales, the latter featuring Blue Jay, the Chinookan trickster figure.

Illustration of the Interior of a Chinookan Plankhouse

A. T. Agate (Public Domain)

Like the Saynday tales of the Kiowa, Wihio tales of the Cheyenne, and Iktomi tales of the Sioux, the Blue Jay tales of the Chinookan peoples always feature the trickster figure Blue Jay and, often, his long-suffering older sister Ioi, who must endure his constant lies (though he famously always claims it is she who is telling untruths) and often outrageous behavior.

In the two Blue Jay tales given below, Blue Jay takes a wife from the Land of the Dead and then abandons her once her people ask him for proper tribute (Blue Jay Finds a Wife) and, in How the Sun Was Stolen, inadvertently helps a man disguised as a slave steal the sun from the daughter of the Sun Keeper by lying to the people (and his brother Robin) about his relationship with the "slave" in order to enhance his status.

The Chinook Creation Tale is an account of how the Chinook came to be but also serves as an origin tale on the proper way to prepare salmon, a staple of the Chinook diet, and the origin of the Thunderbird, a popular supernatural entity, sometimes deity, featured in the myths and legends of many of the Native peoples of North America. Together, these three tales offer a glimpse into the culture of the Chinook people.

Chinookan Peoples & Culture

The Chinook are best known in Euro-American history from their 1805 interaction with the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) when they aided the party, but the Chinookan peoples had lived for centuries before that time along the waterway now known as the Columbia River. According to some scholars, Chinook may mean "fish eaters", owing to their reliance on fish as a staple in their meals (though this claim has been challenged). They were originally a hunter-gatherer people before establishing permanent communities distinguished by their longhouses (plankhouses, approximately 150 ft/45 m long by 60 ft/18 m wide), which were homes to extended families of sometimes up to 40 or 50 people.

Men hunted (primarily elk), fished (usually spearfishing for salmon), defended the village, made war, and brought home captives, who were then either ransomed or used as slaves. Women built the homes, gathered herbs, edible plants, nuts, and roots, made clothing and footwear, raised the children, and prepared the meals. Both girls and boys could participate in the vision quest when they reached adolescence, and women and men could both serve as shamans ("medicine men" and "medicine women") in the community.

Cathlapotle Plankhouse

Walter Siegmund (CC BY-SA)

The Chinook believed (and still believe) in a single Great Spirit Creator God (Neahkanie) who made and maintains the world with the assistance of other supernatural entities such as elemental spirits of the earth, water, air, and fire. Nature spirits are understood as a simple reality of life for the Chinook as are guardian spirits who assist and guide one through life. As with most, if not all, Native American peoples, the Chinook believe in an afterlife similar to their experiences on earth but without sickness, sorrow, disappointment, deprivation, or, of course, death.

Chinookan society was stratified, and the upper class of some bands practiced head binding (flattening the forehead and skull of children from infancy to around their first birthday) to distinguish them from the "round heads" of the lower classes. It is for this reason that the Chinookan peoples were often referred to as the "Flathead Indians" by the early European explorers who encountered them. Some bands also practiced slavery, but no flat-headed individuals of the upper class could be enslaved, only the "round heads" of the lower classes or those of other nations who had been taken captive in warfare.

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[lockheed-martin-unofficial]

You don’t understand how much I need Fire Heli Ratchet. Specifically I need him to be a Chinook or Firehawk. Look at them.

[thatsrightice]

Me: *hears muffled generic airplane noises*

Me: * thinks it’s a Cessna or something but looking out my window anyway*

Me: oh

Me: that’s a Chinook

Me: …huh

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heavy lift

[rebeccathenaturalist]

This is a big deal. No, $48,692.05 is in no way, shape or form a fair price for the many thousands of acres of traditional Chinook land that were never ceded but were taken by settlers anyway. However, the fact that this funding from the 1970 Indian Claims Commission settlement is being released to the tribe is the strongest move toward regaining recognition in years.

As a bit of background, the Chinook Indian Nation are some of the descendants of many indigenous communities who have lived in the Columbia-Pacific region and along the Columbia to the modern-day Dalles since time immemorial. They saw the arrival of the Lewis & Clark party to the Pacific Ocean in 1805, but shortly thereafter were devastated by waves of diseases like malaria and smallpox. The survivors signed a treaty to give up most of their land in 1851, but it was never ratified by the United States government. While some Chinookan people are currently part of federally recognized tribes such as the Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Reservation, the Chinook Indian Nation--comprised of the Lower Chinook, Clatsop, Cathlamet, Willapa, and Wahkiakum--have remained largely unrecognized.

That changed briefly in 2001. On January 3 of that year, the Department of the Interior under the Clinton administration formally recognized the Chinook Indian Nation. In July 2002, the Bush administration revoked the federal recognition after complaints from the Quinault Indian Nation, as the Chinook would have had access to certain areas of what is now the Quinault reservation. This meant that the Chinook, once again, were denied funding and other resources given to federally recognized tribes, to include crucial healthcare funding during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Chinook Indian Nation has been fighting legal battles to regain federal recognition ever since the revocation. The funding released to them in this month's court decision doesn't make them federally recognized, but it is a show of legitimacy in a tangled, opaque system that indigenous people across the United States have had to contend with for many decades. Here's hoping this is a crack in the wall keeping the Chinook from recognition, and that they get more good news soon.