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A Clatsop Winter Story-Video Notes
Instructions: Watch the video and fill in the blanks in the sentences.
1. This video takes place in the year 1844 on the northern coast of California Oregon British Columbia
2. When the Chinook first saw the tall ships and white traders, they thought the ships were sharks orcas whales with trees sticking our of their backs, with bears riding on the whales.
3. Since the men on the ships were not dressed in cedar like the Indians were, the Indians referred to the sailors as “the cloth iron shoes men.”
4. The traders brought black iron cooking baking broiling pots, along with blue glass beads. They also brought clothing made from wool hair cotton , which they still wear today.
5. The ships would trade for the furs from the Indians and take them to England China Japan.
6. During the winter of 1805, a group of “cloth men” came down the river. It was surprising because no “cloth men” had ever come from the east south west and never during the winter storms.
7. The explorers were forced to stay on the north south shore when they could not get around the final bend because of strong winds.
8. Clark called their first camp a “Dismal Nitch”, and tribes brought them food water so they would not starve.
9. Later, at “Station Camp”, Clark used survey instruments to make notes maps of the coast. They used a summer camp of the Chinook because they thought it was abandoned destroyed.
10. The expedition voted to spend the winter on Clatsop land on the north south shore of the Columbia. They first explored the Netul, which is now called the York Lewis and Clark Sacagawea River.
11. The explorers built a series of cabins connected by a log metal picket fence and named it Fort Clatsop, after the local tribe. But, no one asked the tribe’s blessing permission to make the fort on Clatsop lands.
12. The tribe was not surprised by the black skin of York, but they were surprised that they did not eat the large horse dog cat they brought with them, even though they traded for dogs to eat.
13. Lewis gave the Indians rules to follow when they entered the fort. For example, the Indians had to leave the fort by noon sundown midnight , and had leave until dawn.
14. The explorers did not understand how to buy sell trade, so the Clatsop chiefs had to teach them. They exchanged items made of metal and tobacco for food.
15. Sacagawea worked hard to tan hides, making candles clothes candies and preparing food.
16. The Clatsop people believed that they were born on a hill valley mountain , and that they earth gave them plants and animals for food and the cedar poplar fir tree for everything else.
17. Clark and some men visited a village with four longhouses and 8 10 12 families inside.
18. For their meal, the men ate salal berries and fish, followed by a salal soup, stew steak eaten with small shells.
19. Once, Clatsop hunters found an elk killed by the explorers, and were accused of stealing hiding the elk. To clear up the misunderstanding, the chiefs gave the expedition elk deer dogs, which were accepted.
20. The men set up a camp to make salt sugar spices for preserving meat. They took kettles and boiled stream sea water to make the salt.
21. One day, the chiefs brought whale baleen blubber , and said that a whale had beached nearby. Clark and some men went to see the whale, but only a skeleton was left.
22. When the Clatsop refused to sell or trade a canoe cloth food for the explorers to use, the explorers stole borrowed a canoe. In return, Clark gave the Clatsop chiefs papers medals dogs, which the chiefs kept for many years.
23. Clark told the Indians they could keep the fort kettles dog when they left in the spring of 1806. The Clatsop used the fort for many years.
24. Later, other people came from the east and they built a fort called Apple Astoria Portland.
25. Even though many people have some since the early traders and explorers, the Clatsop are still traders here.