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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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chi·nook
/ shəˈnoŏk; chə-/
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(also chinook wind)
a warm dry wind that blows down the east side of the Rocky Mountains at the end of winter.
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(also chinook salmon)
a large North Pacific salmon that is an important commercial food fish. • Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, family Salmonidae.
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Chinook Tribe Attends White House Party, Then Loses Federal Recognition.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 7/8/2002; 700+ words
; ...town named for them, Chinook. Beckham and Whittlesey said the Chinooks' history is almost...They argued that the Chinook tribe no longer exists, but the Chinooks argue that the Quinaults...threatened by the fact that Chinook tribal members were...
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CHINOOK SEASONS GET UNDER WAY ON AUG. 1 WITH NEW OPTIONS FOR COLUMBIA RIVER ANGLERS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...Columbia River anglers will be able to catch chinook salmon throughout August during this year...but will be required to release any chinook they intercept upriver to Bonneville Dam...selective fishing rules will be in effect for chinook jacks on eight Columbia River tributaries...
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CHINOOK SEASON: LIMIT CHANGED, BOISE RIVER OPEN
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/2/2009; 700+ words
; ...changed the daily and possession limits for Chinook salmon in part of the Upper Salmon River, and opened a Chinook season in the Boise River. The change...River, and it allows anglers to keep Chinook salmon less than 24 inches total length...
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Chinook status denied
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 7/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...treaty moving the Chinooks was signed by different Chinook bands in the...inconsistencies," said Chinook Chairman Johnson...argued that the Chinooks have never been...canoe from the Chinooks, a story tribal...say is still in Chinook lore. In spite...
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Chinooks' signals have DNRs worried over lake's balance
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/11/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...would pass the rotting carcass of a big chinook salmon. Barely 20 years into the stocking...had its banner year for catching kings - chinook salmon - with 9.5 million pounds harvested...1990, 80 percent of Lake Michigan's chinook were dead. BKD (bacterial kidney disease...
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CHINOOK DREAM NEARS REALITY TRIBE AWAITS FEDERAL RECOGNITION THATWOULD HELP IT COME TOGETHER AND GROW
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 6/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...look like the ancient fishing grounds of his Chinook Indian ancestors at Willapa Bay. Carved chinook salmon emblems decorate a wall, seashells...Northeast 162nd Avenue. I'm proud to be a Chinook, have been since I was in kindergarten...
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Chinooks not recognized federally as tribe.(The Seattle Times)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...town named for them, Chinook. Beckham and Whittlesey said the Chinooks' history is almost...They argued that the Chinook tribe no longer exists, but the Chinooks argue that the Quinaults...threatened by the fact that Chinook tribal members were...
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CHINOOK SEASON: SOUTH FORK CLOSES TO ADULT SALMON
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...Salmon River will close to harvest of adult Chinook salmon, 24 or more inches in total length...harvested all of the state's share of adult Chinook returning to the South Fork by the end...Tuesday. Anglers may still catch and keep Chinook jacks, less than 24 inches, until the...
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CHINOOK TRIBE SEES SIGN STATUS WILL BE GRANTED
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 1/7/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Clark County's major American Indian tribe, the Chinook. The Chinook see a good chance they'll also be recognized by...We have a similar tribal history to the Cowlitz, Chinook Chairman Gary Johnson of South Bend said Friday...
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CHINOOK SEASON UPDATE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/15/2009; 700+ words
; ...Commission issued the following news release: Chinook salmon fishing has closed on the South Fork...limit is two and the possession limit is six Chinook, 24 or more inches long. No Chinook less than 24 inches in total length may be kept...
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Chinook
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Chinook ETHNONYMS: Cheenook, Tchinouks, Tsniuk The Chinook are an American Indian group who joined the Chehalis Indians...1833, and 1853. In the 1970s the descendants of the Chinook resided on or near the Chehalis Indian Reservation in...
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chinook
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
chinook warm, dry air mass that descends...condensation over the western slopes. Chinooks occur mainly in winter. They...known as foehn winds. The term chinook was originally applied by Oregon...blowing from the direction of a Chinook camp.
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Chinook jargon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chinook jargon lingua franca of early traders on the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada. It included Chinook, Nootka, English, and French words, with various borrowings.
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Chinook Language
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Chinook Language, jargon developed by traders with the Chinook Indians, a Pacific Coast tribe, includes English, Canadian French, and Indian words.
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Quinault
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...Chehalis, Shoalwater Salish, Willapah, and Chinook on the Columbia estuary. All those societies...marriage, feasting, and raiding and spoke a Chinook lingua franca. Since their relocation...Queets, Hoh, Quileute, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz. Demography. The Quinault...
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