by Jessica, age 9
These are the artifact articles that we wrote. We started photographing them the first two weeks of school. We prepared our pictures the rest of September and October. We had eight groups of three kids. Nick, a high school intern, helped us take pictures and work with them on the computer.
Virginia Parks is in charge of the kit that has the artifacts. They did not come from the Chinook village Cathlapotle. They are replicas. Tony Johnson, a Chinook artist, made them. They came from the Discover Cathlapotle! kit.
We did this so we can put our articles on the World Wide Web so people can learn about the Chinook people.
This is how we did it. First, we looked and read about the artifact replicas. Then we photographed them with a digital camera and put them onto the computer so we could fix them up. We wrote and typed articles and put the pictures into the articles. We printed a color one for everybody in each group. The last step will be to put them on the Internet.
We wish to thank Virginia Parks for coordinating the Discover Cathlapotle! kit.
Thanks also to Tony Johnson who made these artifacts.
And thank you to the Chinook nation. We hope that you win your fight to become recognized by the U.S. government as a tribe.
This book is dedicated to Nick Schwartz.