Personal Narrative: My Experience With The Chinooks

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Had to camp with the Chinook tribe last night, few of us slept and all were glad to be on the move again today. I have not enjoyed experience with the Chinooks at all since we got here. At first they seemed ok, but once we got to the village it was disgusting. When I first arrived everyone was scratching themselves, I assumed it was just the mosquitoes. I was wrong, they had fleas. We did not want to embarrass them, but we do not know what to do. They had voluntarily allowed us to stay there and for us to call them disgusting to their faces would be terrible of us. We hoped we wouldn’t have to stay there long, and Lewis decided we would leave first thing in the morning. That night could not have been longer. We appreciated all of the effort,

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