Chiefdom · approximate1500 – 1850 · 350 years
Chinook
No editorial summary yet for Chinook. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.
Borders & accuracy
Chiefdom
A paramount chiefdom with tributary peripheries; extent is inferred from settlement and tribute patterns and remains approximate.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-traced from Smithsonian Handbook vol. 7 (Northwest Coast); Waldman
- SNAPSHOT1805
- MATCHEDUnited States
- POLITY TYPEchiefdom
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Taiping Rebellion1850–64World-changing · 30M dead
- Thirty Years' War1618–48World-changing · 8.0M dead
- Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750World-changing · 5.0M dead
- American Indian Wars1500–1800World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83World-changing · 5.0M dead
- French Wars of Religion1562–98World-changing · 4.0M dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1500 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Chinook (1500 – 1850). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/chinook · Sources & methodology