chinook indians
... the knife, he or she would start dancing and would shoot one spot with a bow and arrow. That spot was supposed to be the exact spot where the thing was hidden. 10. POPULATION One explorer’s name was Broughton. Broughton was trying to find out the population of the Chinook tribe. The population was decreased by diseases like small pox and chicken pox, which had been brought by the white settlers. The Chinook met a European vessel by the bay, which had been covered in water buoys. When the vessel left, the Chinook took a water buoy back to the tribe. The water buoy carried a disease from the white man and gave it to the Chinook which greatly made the population decrease. As of 1990 there was approximately 1700 Chinook people living in western Washington and Oregon. 11. EUROPEAN SETTLERS One effect the white settlers had on the Chinook was that often they would pass by one of their trading spots, like...