"regarding the name Chinook, that's specific to that north shore of the, mouth of the Columbia River. It later became a name that was, in fact given to all of the Chinooks, we had a head person in an area that maybe was in charge of some neighboring villages, and each of those villages often had a head person, each village has its own name, so a name like Kashlama,well that word means that's specifically those people. So, people really identified themselves as a specific area." (Tony Johnson interview 2002)

All interviews conducted by the Lifelong Learning Project, Continuing Education, The University of Montana, 2001-2004.