While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
C- Washington Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Chiklisilkh. A Lower
Chehalis settlement at Pt
Leadbetter, the N. end of the land tongue at Shoalwater bay, Wash. Gibbs,
Chinook vocab., B. A. E., 23.
Chimnapum. A small Shahaptian tribe located by Lewis
and Clark in 1805 on the N. w. side of Columbia r. near the mouth of the Snake,
and on lower Yakima r., Wash. They speak a dialect closely allied to the Paloos.
By Lewis and Clark their population was estimated at 1,860, in 42 lodges. A
remnant of the tribe is still living on the w. side of Columbia r., opposite
Pasco, Wash. (L. F.)
Chippanchickchick. A tribe or band of doubtful
linguistic affinity, either Chinookan or Shahaptian, living in 1812 on Columbia
r., in Klickitat co., Wash., nearly opposite The Dalles. Their number was
estimated at 600.
Chinook. The principal village of the
Chinook, situated
on Baker bay, Pacific co., Wash., near the mouth of Columbia r.
Chobaabish. A small band of Salish, subordinate to Skagit, on Swinomishres.,
Wash.; mentioned in
Pt Elliott treaty of 1855; pop. 38 in 1870.
Chooahlitsh. A former Samish settlement in the canoe
passage E. of Hidalgo id., N. w. Wash.
Cloquallum. A former subdivision and village of the
Upper Chehalis on a river of the same name in w. Washington.
Copalis. A division of Salish on Chepalis r., 18 m. N.
of Grays harbor, Wash. Lewis and Clark estimated their number at 200, in 10
houses, in 1805.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
