Chinook - Main Uses

Main Uses

  • The Chinook people of Native Americans.
    • Chinookan languages, in specific, Coastal Chinook and Upper Chinook
  • Chinook Jargon, a hybrid of Chinookan, Nootka, Chehalis, French, English and other languages
  • Chinook salmon
  • Chinook wind, a wind observed in the Pacific Northwest and western interior of North America

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