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Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark exploration group in 1805/06. The fort sets near the Columbia River on a smaller river named after Lewis and Clark, about five miles southwest of where Astoria is now. The site is now a replica of the old fort now known as The Fort Clatsop National Memorial Park. The first replica built in 1955 burned down in 2005, and being replaced by 700 volunteers as close to the original design as possible. This new fort by grand opening was opened by a celebration in 2007, and is now open to public tour.
NOTE: Not said in the resources available here, that Pacific coast indians from Alaska to Oregon were generally known for fishing and whaling. With their large ocean going conoes they would spear whales, sew their mouths shut and tow them to shore. They were also known for totems, and building slab plank wooden houses. If anyone can find further support to these stories, please let me know. SA
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Museum exhibits
The Tillamook County Pioneer Museum in Tillamook contains exhibits on the history of the Clatsop.
The Clatsop-Nehalem have secured 20 acres (8 hectares) of oceanfront property in Tillamook County where they hope to build a longhouse from cedar planks to serve as a headquarters and museum. Clatsop spiritual leaders continue to hold ceremonial gatherings at Saddle Mountain (the place of their "birth" according to oral history), burial and funerary sites, vision quest sites (tomanowas), former village sites (like Necotat and Quatat), hunting and gathering sites, and places of historical importance.
RESOURCES:
Holton, J. R., Chinook Wawa, 2004
Dart, Anson. Rolls of Certain Tribes in Oregon and Washington, Ye Galleon Press
Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes of Oregon
University of Missouri-St. Louis: Clatsop tribe