Clatsop Indian Tribe
Location
Clatsop.
From a native word meaning "dried salmon."
Connections
The Clatsop belonged to the Lower
Chinook dialectic division of the Chinookan linguistic
stock.
Location
The Clatsop centered about Cape
Adams, on the south side of Columbia River, extending up
the latter as far as Tongue Point and southward on the
Pacific coast to Tillamook Head.
Villages
As far as known these were:
Konope, near the mouth of Columbia River.
Neacoxy, the principal winter village, at the site of
Seaside, at the mouth of Neacoxie Creek.
Neahkeluk, at Point Adams.
Niakewankih, south of Point Adams at the mouth of Ohanna
Creek.
Neahkstowt, near the present Hammond.
Necotat, at the site of Seaside.
Population
Mooney (1928) estimates 300 Clatsop in 1780. In 1806 Lewis
and Clark gave 300. In 1875 the few survivors were moved to Grande Ronde
Reservation, where the census of 1910 returned 26. (See
Clackamas.)
Connection in which they have become noted
Clatsop County and the town of Clatsop, Oregon., preserve
the name.
Additional Oregon Indian Resources
Notes About the Book:
Source: The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton, 1953, Bureau of
American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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