| | |  | | |  The Chinook lived along the Northwest Pacific Coast and the Columbia River. Expert hunters, fishermen, traders and storytellers, they bargained with arriving Europeans, exchanging pelts for tools and guns. The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 stayed with the tribe for several months, impressed by their rituals and hospitality. Eventually, the Chinook were devastated by foreign diseases for which they had no immunity, and by 1840 two-thirds of the Chinook population had died. Governmental treaties and doctrines also deprived the tribe of much of its land, leaving surviving generations with an ongoing battle to secure tribal recognition and reclaim the land once held by their ancestors. Part of the multivolume Indians of North America Video Collection, each featuring the compelling history and culture of a particular Native American tribe. | "  ...viewers get a chance to see cultural practices and hear native languages that contemporary Native Americans are struggling to save from extinction...these would be a boon to school and public libraries...recommended." - Video Librarian
"The producers have done an admirable job of creating a series of videos whose structure and content parallel each other. Individuals or groups of students could use a video to write reports or make presentations to the class." - School Library Journal
"Intriguingly presenting the lifestyle, culture, and history of various Native American tribes...given a sense of immediacy through its many fascinating interviews... vivid and very positive portraits of Native Americans' histories and traditions." - Booklist
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| Grades 5 to Adults
Color, B&W, Live Action
Closed-Captioned
Copyright 1994
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