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There are First Salmon Ceremonies to honor the fish runs. There are ceremonies to give people names, with a potlatch to follow. There are ceremonies when a baby becomes one year old and ceremonies when a girl becomes a woman.

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There are many Chinook traditions. One tradition involved flattening an infants head at birth by applying pressure with a board (see related link below). The amount of flattening would reflect the child's social position within the community. Members of the community with flat heads held a higher social status than those with round heads.

The link listed below has many of the Chinook traditions:

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what ceremonies the Chinook Indians have.

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