"The Chimakum are said to have been formerly one of the largest and most powerful tribes of Puget Sound. Their warlike habits early tended to diminish their numbers, and when visited by Gibbs in 1854 they counted only about 70 individuals. This small remnant occupied some 15 small lodges on Port Townsend Bay." _J. W. Powell, Seventh Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, page 62._ AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Chimarikan Family. "According to Powers, this family was represented, so far as known, by two tribes in California, one the Chi-mál-a-kwe, living on New River, a branch of the Trinity, the other the Chimariko, residing upon the Trinity itself from Burnt Ranch up to the mouth of North Fork, California. The two tribes are said to have been as numerous formerly as the Hupa, by whom they were overcome and nearly exterminated. Upon the arrival of the Americans only 25 of the Chimalakwe were left." _J. W. Powell, Seventh Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, page 63._ AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Chinantecs. See below: ZAPOTECS, ETC. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Chinookan Family. "The banks of the Columbia, from the Grand Dalles to its mouth, belong to the two branches of the Tsinuk [or Chinook] nation, which meet in the neighborhood of the Kowlitz River, and of which an almost nominal remnant is left. ... The position of the Tsinuk previous to their depopulation was, as at once appears, most important, occupying both sides of the great artery of Oregon for a distance of 200 miles, they possessed the principal thoroughfare between the interior and the ocean, boundless resources of provisions of various kinds, and facilities for trade almost unequalled on the Pacific." _G. Gibbs, Tribes of West Washington and N. W. Oregon (Contributions to North American Ethnology, volume 1), page 164._ See, also, below: FLATHEADS. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Chippewas. See below: OJIBWAS; and above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Chippewyans. See below: ATHAPASCAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Choctaws. See below: MUSKHOGEAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Chontals and Popolocas.