Upper Chinook

American  

noun

1. a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.

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Example Sentences

The former, also called Cathlasco, the dialect of the Dalles Indians, is a corrupted form of the Watlala or Upper Chinook.

From Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by Gibbs, George

Some of the Watlala, or Upper Chinook, live near the Cascades, about 55 miles below The Dalles.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

Our friends stayed one night at the Echeloot or Upper Chinook village, which they had visited when coming down the river.

From Deerfoot in The Mountains by Davis, John Steeple