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Upper Chinook

American  

noun

  1. a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.

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Our friends stayed one night at the Echeloot or Upper Chinook village, which they had visited when coming down the river.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of the Watlala, or Upper Chinook, live near the Cascades, about 55 miles below The Dalles.

From Project Gutenberg

The former, also called Cathlasco, the dialect of the Dalles Indians, is a corrupted form of the Watlala or Upper Chinook.

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