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Chinook may refer to:
Chinook peoples
The name derives from a settlement of Indigenous people in Oregon and Washington State.
Chinookan peoples , several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest
Chinookan languages , small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples
Chinook Jargon , a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest
Lower Chinook , a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River
Upper Chinook language , a recently extinct language of the US Pacific Northwest
Places
United States
Washington state
Animals
Plants
Chinook cherry , a cross between Bing and Gil Peck cultivars
Chinook olives , urine-cured olives by Indigenous people of the Columbia river valley
Transport
Aircraft
Air-Sport Chinook , Polish single-place paraglider
Birdman Chinook , a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft
Boeing CH-47 Chinook , a tandem-rotor helicopter
Hermanspann Chinook , an American mid-wing, two-seat, experimental research glider
Meadowcroft Chinook , a two-seat mid-winged American homebuilt aircraft
Wings of Change Chinhook Bi , an Austrian two-place paraglider
Watercraft
Other
Chinook, the first
Canadian exclusive geographic Beanie Baby
The Chinook , weekly newspaper in South Vancouver
founded by George Matheson Murray
Chinook (computer program) , draughts player
Chinook (newspaper) , a counterculture underground newspaper published weekly in Denver, Colorado
Chinook Sciences , a technology company that specializes in waste to energy and metal recovery
Chinook wind , two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America
Chinook Wines , a Washington winery located in the Yakima Valley AVA
Billy Chinook (
c. 1827 – 1890), chief and member of the Wasco tribe
Lakeshore Chinooks , a baseball team based in Mequon, Wisconsin
See also
Topics referred to by the same term