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From: Steady Eddie
Date: 7/20/2002
Time: 1:28:48 AM
Remote Name: 204.245.250.146
Aha!
Tenas Kumtux?
You send me running (cooley skookum) for my Chinook Dictionary-- :-)
Anyway--I had a story, saved on the hard drive of our old computer, that told the story (BS?) of the wealth of the Lower Columbia Chinooks. I cannot retrive it. In the article, written by who knows, was the unique tale of how the Nootka Indians would get back to Puget Sound, "after delivering" trade goods, canoes, and etc. to the wealhty Chinooks living at the mouth of the Columbia River. The article went on to say that after the trading was done, Chinook guides would escort them Northward, in canoes, from the River, in a creek--overland to Willapa Bay (over a short portage) -- then up the Black River to its' headwaters of Black Lake -- over another trail/portage to the Sound, to an arm of the Sound, and from there they were home free. I'm sure that the Nootka could well get through on their own, but the Chinooks were along to assure a safe passage. I found yet another article that tells of the farmer that lives along the Black River, that still has a 3 or 4 foot deep trench in the ground, where literally thousands of canoes were dragged over a portage, over a time of centuries. The farmer was smart enough to not destroy the "portage trench"--it is probably still there--but it is something that should be preserved.
You are beginning to see how a BBS, like this one, works. In order to get people (like yourself) to post an article, sometimes an outrageous post is made to get replies. Perhaps the Chinook DID buy the larger canoes from the Nootka Indians, (like I said, I did have an archived article) and you have to wonder if the supply of the required large, straight Cedar trees may have dried up.
S.E.