Wiktionary
n. A member of a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 19685
Land area (2000): 827.228059 sq. miles (2142.510747 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 257.518564 sq. miles (666.969991 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1084.746623 sq. miles (2809.480738 sq. km)
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 46.039585 N, 123.768902 W
Headwords:
Clatsop, OR
Clatsop County
Clatsop County, OR
Wikipedia
The Clatsop are a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In the early 19th century they inhabited an area of the northwestern coast of present-day Oregon from the mouth of the Columbia River south to Tillamook Head, Oregon.
The Clatsop are an ethnic group native to the US state of Oregon. Clatsop may also refer to:
Usage examples of "clatsop".
They make Native Americans invisible, implying that the United States bought vacant land from the French, Although the Mandans hosted the expedition during the winter of 1804-05 and the Clatsops did so the next winter, even these tribes drop out.
Captain Lewis, Fort Clatsop, 20 March 1806 Homeward-Bound The rain ceased and it became fair about Meridian, at which time we loaded our canoes and at 1:00 P.
Towards evening seven Clatsops came over in a canoe, with two skins of the sea-otter.
A canoe of eight Indians, who were carrying down wappatoo-roots to trade with the Clatsops, stopped at our camp.
He noticed that the Clatsops were well dressed and clean, and that they frequently washed their faces and hands, a ceremony, he remarked, that is by no means frequent among other Indians.
In the evening there arrived two canoes of Clatsops, among whom was a principal chief, called Comowol.
We were visited by a few Clatsops, who came by water, bringing roots and berries for sale.
In language, habits, and in almost every other particular, they resemble the Clatsops, Cathlamahs, and, indeed, all the people near the mouth of the Columbia, though they appeared to be inferior to their neighbors in honesty as well as spirit.
There was no direct intercourse between the two nations as yet, but the Chinooks traded with the Clatsops and Wahkiacums, and these in turn traded with the Skilloots, and in this way the two hostile tribes exchanged the articles which they had for those which they desired.
Captain Clark, Fort Clatsop, 30 December 1805 With the party of Clatsops who visited us last was a man of much lighter color than the natives are generally.
They were also situated near four houses of Clatsops and Tillamooks, who, they informed me, had been very kind and attentive to them.
The natives inhabiting the lower part of the river, and with whom the company was likely to have the most frequent intercourse, were divided at this time into four tribes, the Chinooks, Clatsops, Wahkiacums, and Cathlamahs.
The four tribes nearest to Astoria, and with whom the traders had most intercourse, were, as has heretofore been observed, the Chinooks, the Clatsops, the Wahkiacums, and the Cathlamets.