Native American Cultures
This is the main language people used for trade in the Pacific Northwest.
What is Chinook Jargon?
This epidemic is the reason so many Native Americans died at different missions.
What is the Measles epidemic?
This large and flat-tailed aquatic animal was hunted for its fur, and it greatly affected the landscape.
What is a beaver?
After starting in St. Louis, they ultimately followed the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
The missionary group that sent priests to work with the Native Americans and French Canadian fur trappers.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The largest group of Native Americans on the coast spoke this language.
What is Salish?
This famous column seen in Astoria today was named after the founder of the American Fur Company.
Who was John Jacob Astor?
This was another water animal that individuals used for trapping, but it was not the main animal that was used for trapping and the fur trade.
What is an otter?
This Spanish explorer may have been the first to sail ships along the Pacific Coast. A strait is named after him.
Who was Juan de Fuca?
This doctor was killed by the Cayuse Native Americans at his Waiilatput Mission in 1847.
Who was Dr. Marcus Whitman?
This is the main reason that coastal People did not migrate or travel from place to place.
They were close to resources.
This was the first major American trading post in Oregon Country. It is a subsidiary of the American Fur Company.
What is the Pacific Fur Company?
This is the main way that people traded during the fur trapping era.
What is to barter?
This British explorer and cartographer traveled and mapped the length of the Columbia River.
Who was David Thompson?
He was the most prominent Catholic priest who later became a biship.
Who was Francois Blanchet?
The plateau's hot dry summers and cold, snowy winters meant that people did this throughout the year.
They migrated.
This war force the Astorians to sell their fort to the British.
What is the War of 1812?
This is the name of the #1 fur trading company in the west.
What is the Hudson Bay Company (HBC)?
He mapped the Puget Sound and named both Mt. Baker and Mt. Olypus.
Who was George Vancouver?
After 13 people had been killed at the Waillatpu Mission, the name of the mission has now been changed to this.
What is the Whitman Mission?
These two groups had a lot of similarities in the ways of life because they both used natural resources for food, shelter, and clothing.
What are the Plateau and Coastal Native Americans?
What is the Waiilatpu Mission?
This was the most prominent fur trading post located in the Pacific Northwest.
This explorer had been as far as to China, and due to his explorations, he started the North West Fur Trade.
Who was James Cook?
They did not try to change them.