WASHOUGAL – Sam Robinson is continuing his 2025 visits to four Washougal schools, bringing the history of the Chinook people to life for fourth-graders. His presentations recount the enduring legacy ...

After 160 years of negotiating for their rights with the U.S. government, the is still in the game. The most visible -- and likely least legally recognized -- Native American tribe in the Pacific ...

The 36-foot tribal canoe listed to the left as it pushed away from the dock, looking dangerously close to spilling into the still green waters of Lake River. Its crew – eight college students, one ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Bones and sacred objects of Chinook Indian Nation ancestors are left on museum shelves without a legal path for descendants to bring home or bury. Chinook Indian Nation ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - Every day for the last three months, the Chinook Indian Nation has addressed a letter to President Barack Obama about a subject that tribal chairman Tony Johnson calls “a matter ...

Jul. 21—Don Abing, of the Chinook Indian Nation, tapped his chin so the children would remember to pronounce "Chinook" with a "chin" and not a "shin." He told them that Chinook people used Oregon ash ...