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Members of Chinook Indian Nation liken lack of federal recognition to slow-motion 'genocide'


Members of Chinook Indian Nation liken lack of federal recognition to slow-motion ‘genocide’
Updated Apr 03, 2021;
Posted Apr 03, 2021
Members of the Chinook Indian Nation paddle a newly made replica of an historic Native American canoe in 2013. They were on the first day of a five-day river journey down the Lower Columbia in honor of their ancestors and in celebration of the river. Faith Cathcart/The OregonianLC-
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By Anna V. Smith/High Country News
Before the pandemic, the cedar plankhouse called Cathlapotle would have been full of stories and fire. Every winter, the Chinook Indian Nation and neighboring tribes hold their annual gathering here, on their ancestral lands on a Columbia River floodplain, where red-winged blackbirds sing from the cattails and yellow-and-orange-eyed sandhill cranes strut on stilted legs. It’s not far from the remnants of a village also called Cathlapotle, a major Chinookan trading town established around 1 ....

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