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{{short description|Indigenous people in Oregon state}} {{other uses}} {{more citations needed|date=March 2009}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Clatsop | native_name = tɬác̓əp | native_name_lang = chh | flag = | flag_caption = | image = Tsin-is-tum.jpg | image_caption = [[Tsin-is-tum]], a Clatsop elder ({{c.}} 1900) | image_alt = An elderly Clatsop woman sitting in front of a wooden door, wearing western style clothes. She is holding a traditional basket. | population = | regions = Coastal [[Oregon]] | religions = [[Indigenous religion]] | languages = Historically [[Lower Chinook]], later [[Chinook Jargon]] and [[English language|English]] | related = Other [[Chinookan peoples]], [[Tillamook people]] }} The '''Clatsop''' ([[Lower Chinook]]: {{Lang|chh|tɬác̓əp}}) are a [[Chinookan languages|Chinookan]]-speaking [[Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest]] of the [[United States]]. In the early 19th century they inhabited an area of the [[Oregon Coast#North Coast|northwestern coast]] of present-day [[Oregon]] from the mouth of the [[Columbia River]] south to [[Tillamook Head]], Oregon. Today, Clatsop descendants are members of the [[federally recognized]] [[Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Introduction |url=https://ctsi.nsn.us/introduction/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=[[Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians]] |language=en-US}}</ref> as well as the unrecognized [[Chinook Indian Nation]] and [[Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes]]. ==Etymology== The name Clatsop comes from {{Lang|chh|tɬác̓əp}},{{Efn|Also {{lang|chh|ɬác̓p}}}} meaning "those who have pounded salmon".{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=545}} It was originally the name of a single settlement, later applied to the tribe as a whole.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Deur |first=Douglas |date=Winter 2016 |title=The Making of Seaside's "Indian Place": Contested and Enduring Native Spaces on the Nineteenth Century Oregon Coast |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5403/oregonhistq.117.4.0536 |journal=Oregon Historical Quarterly |volume=117 |issue=4 |pages=538-539 |jstor= 10.5403/oregonhistq.117.4.0536}}</ref> Clatsop has also been spelled Clapsott, Clapsot, Clotsop, Cladsap, Clatsap, Clatsup, Klatsup, and Latsop.{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=545}} The Clatsop were also called by the [[Lower Chinook people|Lower Chinook]] and [[Kathlamet]] {{Lang|chh|tɬák̓ilak}}, meaning "where there is pounded salmon", deriving from the main Clatsop village, {{Lang|chh|niák̓ilaki}}.{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=545}} == Classification == The Clatsop are a [[Chinookan peoples|Chinookan people]]. Alongside the [[Willapa Chinook]] and the [[Lower Chinook people|Chinook]] proper, they are one of the Lower Chinook, a cultural-geographical and linguistic grouping of Chinookans whose villages were at the mouth of the Columbia River.{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=533}} The Columbia River in Chinook is called {{Lang|chh|imaɬ}} or {{Lang|chh|iyagaytɬ imaɬ}}, 'great water'.{{Sfn|Zenk|Johnson|Hamilton|2010|p=286-287}} In [[Chinook Jargon]], it is called {{Langx|chn|hayásh-tsəqʷ|lit=great water|label=none}}.{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=7}} == Territory == In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Clatsop occupied an area on the south bank of the Columbia River stretching from [[Point Adams]] to [[Youngs Bay]]. They also had villages on the Pacific coast stretching from Point Adams to [[Tillamook Head]].{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=533}} To the north of the Clatsop, across the Columbia River, were the villages of the Chinook, and to the east were the [[Kathlamet]], another Chinookan people. To the south, past Tillamook Head, was the territory of the [[Nehalem people|Nehalem]], a [[Salishan languages|Salishan-speaking]] group to which the Clatsop have strong ties.{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=533}} {| class="wikitable" |+List of known Clatsop villages !Name !Anglicization(s) !Location !Notes !References |- |{{Lang|chh|nakutʼát}} |Nakutat |In the vicinity of [[Seaside, Oregon|Seaside]] | |{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}}{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=534}} |- |{{Lang|chh|nikánikəm}} |Necanicum |In the vicinity of Seaside | |{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}}{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=534}} |- |{{Lang|chh|niáx̣̣aqši}} |Neacoxi, Neahcoxie |In the vicinity of Seaside |The name means "place of little pines" |{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}}{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=534}}<ref name="Frankowicz" /> |- |{{Lang|chh|niákʼiwanqi}} |Niyakiwanki |In the vicinity of Seaside | |{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}} |- |{{Lang|chh|tɬác̓əp}}{{Efn|Also called {{lang|chh|tiákʼilakix}} or {{lang|chh|niák̓ilaki}}}} |Clatsop |Near Point Adams |Main Clatsop village |{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}}{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=534}} |- |{{Lang|chh|kʼunúpi}} |Kunupi |Near Point Adams | |{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}}{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=534}} |- |{{Lang|chh|naiáaqštawi}} |Naya-akshtawi |Near Point Adams |The name means "at the head" |{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}}{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=534}} |} ==History== The Chinookans at the mouth of the river were first mentioned by [[Robert Gray (sea captain)|Robert Gray]] and his first mate, [[John Boit]], who visited the area on May 18, 1792. Soon after on October 21, the [[Vancouver Expedition|Vancouver expedition]] visited the area, venturing past the [[Columbia Bar]].{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=535}} The Vancouver expedition described a village at Point Adams, noting the presence of [[burial canoes]].{{Sfn|Vancouver|1801|p=89}} The first major European account to describe the Clatsop was the account of the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|Lewis and Clark expedition]] in 1805. The expedition arrived in the fall and wintered in Youngs Bay.{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=535}} The expedition named their last encampment [[Fort Clatsop]] after the tribe, whose nearest major village was approximately {{convert|7|mi|km}} away. According to the journals of [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]], the Clatsop comprised about 200 people living in three separate villages, with large [[plank house|longhouses]] constructed of [[Thuja plicata|cedar]] planks. Clatsop members regularly visited the fort to trade furs and other goods for European manufactured goods. The Clatsop shared [[salmon]], berries, and hunting tips with the [[Corps of Discovery]]. In contrast to the Corps' interactions with the [[Plains Indians]] the previous winter, their interaction with the Clatsop was more limited. The two groups did not mingle for social occasions, and the fort was opened to trading only 24 days during the winter. Part of the reason may have been that the coastal tribes had an existing relationship with [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British traders]]. The Clatsop and Chinook asked for higher prices from the American expedition for their goods at a time when the Corps' supply of "Indian gifts" had dwindled. Only two Clatsop, Coboway and Cuscalar, are regularly named in the Corps members' journals.{{Cn|date=August 2024}} The arrival of European traders to the Columbia River in the early 19th century allowed the Clatsop and other downriver Chinookans to obtain trade goods otherwise locked behind the long inland trade routes controlled by the upriver Chinookans, their historic rivals.{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=535}} From the 1830s-1850s, Clatsop society began experiencing a rapid decline after smallpox, measles, malaria, and other diseases ravaged the Columbia River. As the fur trade had become less important to Americans, the Clatsop had to adapt to these quickly changing conditions. Villages were abandoned and populations consolidated together, as tribes began to attempt to negotiate with the American government.{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=535}} In an 1851 treaty, the Clatsop tribe proposed to cede 90 percent of their land to the U.S. Government. This treaty was one of many in the Northwest that was never ratified by [[United States Senate|Senate]]. Unlike other tribes, the members were not required to move to a reservation. They were one of the only tribes in Oregon that were not the focus of an organized effort to remove them from reservations.<ref>([[Anson Dart|Dart, Anson]]. ''Rolls of Certain Tribes in Oregon and Washington,'' Ye Galleon Press)</ref>{{pn|date=May 2020}} By the late 19th century, traditional Clatsop society as it was at the beginning of the century was all but gone. Many Clatsop by this point had merged with their southern neighbors, the Tillamook, and adopted the Tillamook language.{{Sfn|Silverstein|1990|p=535}} == Culture and society == The Clatsop had designated headmen but were socially flexible.{{Clarify|reason=What does "socially flexible" mean?|date=August 2024}} Individual families affiliated with one another in small villages and seasonal camps located near food sources.{{Cn|date=August 2024}} === Language === The Clatsop spoke a dialect of the [[Lower Chinookan language]], which is now extinct.{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}} Most Clatsops spoke [[Chinook Jargon]] by the time [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|Lewis and Clark]]'s Corps of Discovery made contact with them.<ref>([[J. R. Holton|Holton, J. R.]], Chinook Wawa, 2004)</ref>{{fcn|date=May 2020}} Some spoke [[Tillamook language|Nehalem]], reflecting intermarriage and cohabitation with that tribe.{{Cn|date=August 2024}} Chinook Jargon is a trade language and was once used throughout much of the Pacific Northwest. Many place names in the area come from the Chinook Jargon, for example, [[Ecola State Park|Ecola Creek and Park]] — "whale".{{Cn|date=August 2024}} == Successor groups == === Chinook Indian Nation === The [[Chinook Indian Nation]] is an unrecognized group which claims descent from the Clatsop people. In January 2001, the Chinook Indian Nation gained official federal recognition through an executive order by President [[Bill Clinton]]. The Chinook's legal status was reversed by the [[George W. Bush administration|Bush administration]] soon after taking office. The [[wikt: bicentennial|bicentennial]] of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004–2006 provided renewed interest in the status of the Clatsop and Chinook.{{Cn|date=August 2024}} === Clatsop-Nehalem === The [[Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes]] are an unrecognized group who claim descent from the Clatsop people. The Confederated Tribes have approximately 200 members. The confederation formed between the Clatsop and their southern neighbors, the Salishan-speaking Nehalem.{{Cn|date=August 2024}} In May 2020, the North Coast Land Conservancy transferred {{convert|18.6|acres}} of its Neawanna Point Habitat Preserve, located on the north Oregon coast, to the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes.<ref name="Frankowicz">{{cite news |last=Frankowicz |first=Katie |date=5 May 2020 |title=Tribes regain foothold in South County |url=https://www.dailyastorian.com/news/local/tribes-regain-foothold-in-south-county/article_d29870aa-8ee5-11ea-9e97-7f13ef59ae12.html |access-date=8 May 2020 |work=The Astorian}}</ref> The area, located between [[Seaside, Oregon|Seaside]] and [[Gearhart, Oregon]], consists of saltmarsh and [[Sitka spruce]] forest on the Necanicum [[Estuary]] at the north end of Seaside. The Neawanna and the Neacoxie creeks meet the [[Necanicum River]], which flows to the Pacific. The Clatsop had known this area by the name ''{{Lang|chh|niáx̣̣aqši}}'' or "place of little pines".{{Sfn|Zenk|Hajda|Boyd|2016|p=9}}<ref name="Frankowicz" /> This is the first land owned by the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes since they were displaced by European Americans beginning nearly 200 years ago.<ref name="nclctrust">{{cite web |last=Frankowicz |first=Katie |date=5 May 2020 |title=NCLC returns ancient cultural site to Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes |url=https://nclctrust.org/nclc-returns-ancient-cultural-site/ |access-date=20 Jun 2020 |work=The Astorian}}</ref> === Others === Other tribes in the region, such as the [[Quinault Indian Nation|Quinault]], [[Siletz]],<ref name=":0" /> and [[Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon|Grand Ronde]], also have enrollees of Clatsop descent.{{Cn|date=August 2024}} ==See also== * [[Tsin-is-tum]] == Notes == {{notelist}} ==References== {{reflist}} === Bibliography === * {{Cite book |last=Silverstein |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Silverstein |chapter=Chinookans of the Lower Columbia |title=Northwest Coast |editor=Wayne Suttles |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |year=1990 |isbn=0-16-020390-2 |series=Handbook of North American Indians |volume=7 |pages=533–546}} * {{Cite book |last=Vancouver |first=George |author-link=George Vancouver |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_42061/ |title=A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World |publisher=Printed for John Stockdale, Picadilly |year=1801 |isbn=0665420617 |volume=III |location=London}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Zenk |first1=Henry B. |last2=Hajda |first2=Yvonne P. |last3=Boyd |first3=Robert T. |author-link3=Robert Boyd (anthropologist) |date=2016 |title=Chinookan Villages of the Lower Columbia |url=https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anth_fac/93/ |journal=[[Oregon Historical Quarterly]] |volume=117 |issue=1 |pages=6–37 |doi=10.1353/ohq.2016.0054 |via=PDXScholar|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite book |last1=Zenk |first1=Henry |url=https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2018/02/2010_Zenk_Johnson_Hamilton.pdf |title=Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon) etymologies |last2=Johnson |first2=Tony |last3=Hamilton |first3=Sarah Braun |publisher=[[Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde]] |year=2010}} ==External links== * [https://ctsi.nsn.us/introduction/ Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians], Siletz, OR * [https://clatsop-nehalem.com/ Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes of Oregon] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081007014354/http://www.umsl.edu/~econed/louisiana/Am_Indians/14-The_Clatsop/14-the_clatsop.html University of Missouri-St. Louis: Clatsop tribe] {{Oregon Native History}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Chinookan tribes]] [[Category:Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians]] [[Category:Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau]] [[Category:Native American tribes in Oregon]] [[Category:Oregon Coast]] [[Category:Terminated Native American tribes]]
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