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Shoalwater Bay, Washington State
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Early 1900s
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Edward S. Curtis
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A Chinook Indian woman holds a clam basket. The Chinook prospered from the riches of the Pacific Northwest's waters and forests until a malaria epidemic devastated them in 1825. Today the handful of Chinook survivors live on the Quinault Reservation in Washington State.
—Text adapted from the National Geographic book Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery, 1998
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