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Humanities 6-7 Native American’s compare and contrast
Chinook and Umatilla people have a lot in common and a lot of differences that you might
Not know of , let me show you. They have a lot of similarities based off of food.For example,the umatillas main source of food was the Columbia river due to the fact that they couldn't reach the ocean they mostly got salmon,eels, and sturgeon etc. They gathered This food around winter,spring, and fall for the salmon runs. .According to the Native American packet the chinook they also eat salmon from the Columbia river.But they did use different tools. For instance the chinook used canoes up to 50 ft long to catch their fish the umatilla used traps to trap there salmon.