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!
Cathlamet. A Chinookan tribe formerly residing on the
s. bank of Columbia r. near its mouth, in Oregon. They ad joined the Clatsop and
claimed the territory from Tongue pt. to the neighborhood of Puget id. In 1806
Lewis and Clark estimated their number at 300. In 1849 Lane reported 58 still
living, but they are now extinct. They seem to have had but one village, also
known as Cathlamet. As a dialect, Cathlamet was spoken by a number of Chinookan
tribes on both sides of the Columbia, extending up the river as far as Rainier.
It is regarded as belonging to the upper Chinook division of the family. See
Boas, Kathlamet Texts, Bull. 26, B. A. E., 1901.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
