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From: S.E.
Date: 2/2/2002
Time: 12:30:46 PM
Remote Name: 206.163.13.20
Part of doing research about the Chinook Indians is being a good Internet detective. At the site linked below, there is much good information, if you lift it out of the surrounding script. For instance, the name of the Chinook Chief who was Chief Concomly's son-in-law, and the town named after him. The name of the Chinook Chief whose band of Indians lived on the northern part of Long Beach Peninsula, and has a town named after him.
But perhaps the best info is the nearly exact description of the location of the very large Chinook Village on the Lower Columbia, called Chinook. It is NOT where Chinook, Wa. is at now. As it says in the article, it was on the other side of Ft. Columbia from the current town of Chinook. Few non-Indians know this. They also don't know that Chief Concomly took his entire Village, every winter, up the Naselle River, to a canyon, where a creek flows into the Naselle River. Most, if not all, of the very bad weather, simply blew right over them. Where that canyon is, exactly, I do not know, but "somebody" knows, and even though it is most likely now on private land, this "Canyon of Concomly" should be protected.
Steady Eddie