UPPER CHINOOK Definition & Meaning

Upper Chinook

a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.

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Our friends stayed one night at the Echeloot or Upper Chinook village, which they had visited when coming down the river.

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Some of the Watlala, or Upper Chinook, live near the Cascades, about 55 miles below The Dalles.

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The former, also called Cathlasco, the dialect of the Dalles Indians, is a corrupted form of the Watlala or Upper Chinook.

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