Cowlitz

The Cowlitz were a small Chinookan-speaking tribe who lived north of the Columbia River in houses made of wooden planks. The Cowlitz were a large and powerful Salishan tribe. They were an interior tribe for their territory did not open onto a large body of water, as a result they were more cohesive than other Salish groups on the coast and Columbia River. An epidemic wiped out much of the population around 1829-30, leaving about 500 Cowlitz. The population rebounded slightly, and today most of the 1,400 remaining Cowlitz live near their ancestral lands.

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