Clatsop

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. Clatsop' in the original language is La t cap, which means "placed of dried salmon". Apparently "Clatsop" was originally the name of a single settlement. The Clatsop dialect used b... more

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