Clatsop Indians The Clatsop Indians numbered around 400 people in 1805. They occupied three villages on the northwest tip of where Oregon is today. They were kind and not warriors. This tribe was related and part of a much larger band of indians called the Chinook. The Clatsop Indians were very helpful to the Corps of Discovery, especially their chief Coboway. He told them were to find food and how to get catch it. Relations between the Corps and the Clatsops went well except for one canoe the Corps of Discovery stole. On January 6th, Captain Lewis wrote in his journal; "The Clatsops, Chinnooks, Killamucks &c. are very loquacious and inquisitive; they possess good memories and have repeated to us the names capasitities of the vessels &c of many traders and others who have visited the mouth of this river; they are generally low in stature, proportionably small, reather lighter complected and much more illy formed than the Indians of the Missouri and those of our frontier; they are generally cheefull but never gay, with us their conversation generally turns upon the subjects of trade, smoking, eating or their women"