He was only four months old when he enrolled in the tribe. His father, Gary Johnson, formerly served as tribal chairman. In 1991, young Tony designed the Chinook flag - a red-and-black rendering ...

The tribe once lived in an area that surrounded ... the surrounding bluffs and shoreline. On the screen a black and white photo showed Chinook people in dugout canoes landing in the same place.

Molly Solomon / OPB The Chinook Indian ... Northwest history. The tribe guided Lewis and Clark on their journey west. The tribe's language was used to communicate with white settlers and fur ...

VANCOUVER -- The Chinook tribe, whose people have lived in the ... Late in its administration, the Clinton White House approved the Chinook's recognition. That was rescinded by the Bush ...

In July, when members of the Chinook Tribe were invited to the White House for a kick-off to the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, they came bearing gifts – a hand-carved dugout canoe and beads ...

Disputing what it describes as an upstart group's invalid claims as a "homeland tribe" to help host the coming celebrations, the Chinook Indian ... for a board of mostly white people like us ...

The Okulam canoe shows park visitors the most popular type of canoe used by the Chinook tribe for more than two ... painted in traditional red and black colors — are considered the most common ...

But that win is embedded in the ongoing struggle for federal recognition of the tribe’s sovereign legitimacy, which is the basis for the government’s agreement to compensate the Chinook for ...

They Chinook are more than something to eat for the Karuk tribe. The fish—both real and ... “that’s the end of the world.” White settlers modified the rivers that the Karuk and other ...

(Photo courtesy of Amiran White) The Chinook Indian Nation represents a group of five tribes indigenous to the mouth of the Columbia River. The tribe was federally recognized by the Clinton ...

The tribe once lived in an area that surrounded ... the surrounding bluffs and shoreline. On the screen a black and white photo showed Chinook people in dugout canoes landing in the same place.