FDI - Clatskanie

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Clatskanie

*Ethnie:*	CLATSKANIE
*Language*	Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie
*Family:*	Pacific Coast Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Athapaskan
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern

Speakers

The Pacific Coast Athapaskans arrived in the area late in the first millennium from Canada. The Clatskanie were a bellicose sedentary hunter/gatherer tribe of Oregon mountains about the Clatskanie River. They were known to charge a toll for passage down the Columbia River and were greatly feared. They apparently relocated late from the prairies bordering the Chehalis River in Washington. They were most closely related to the Kwalhioqua, the only other Athapaskans of the immediate area.

Aboriginal Locations

WA Number of village unknown

Oregon Present Locations

Extinct

Year	*History*
1792	Area charted by Capt. George Vancouver
1805	Visited by Lewis and Clark
1811	Astoria established
1824	Probably affected by smallpox epidemic
1829	Smallpox epidemic
1841	Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts follwed

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	1,600	NAHDB calculation
1780	1,600	Mooney
1800	1,000	NAHDB calculation
1825	175	Simpson estimate
1851	8	Swanton
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

WA Kwalhioqua

Clatskanie Sites:

Clatskanie http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/oregon/clatskanie.html

Clatskanie and Clatskanie River http://englishriverwebsite.com/LewisClarkColumbiaRiver/Regions/Places/clatskanie_river.html

Clatskanie's History http://www.clatskanie.com/chamber/history.htm

Clatskanie Indians http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/record_tribes_085_13_23.html

Clatskanie Language http://www.native-languages.org/clatskanie.htm

Clatskanie Linguistic Lineage http://www.ydli.org/bcother/bclist.htm

Northwest: Chinookan Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_chinookan_culture.htm

Willapa http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.09.book.00000242&volume=9