Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

3-28-2008

Subjects

Chinookan Indians -- Lower Columbia River Watershed (Or. and Wash.) -- History, Chinookan Indians -- Antiquities, Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), Chinookan Indians -- Micmac Indians--First contact with Europeans

Abstract

The Station Camp/McGowan site, at the mouth of the Columbia River, contains the remains of a contact-period Chinook Indian village characterized by abundant fur-trade era goods and well-preserved architectural features associated with at least three plank structures. The Chinookan fur-trade site (identified as the "Middle Village" by Chinook people) contains an abundance of wealth items and a dearth of productive tools and debris within traditional activity spaces. These data suggest the intensity and context of interaction between Native American groups at the coast and Euro- American traders.

Description

Paper prepared for the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10267

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