Middle Village, Station Camp

The panel gives the village its own name, Qiqayaqilxam, which Chinook writers now spell qiíq'ayaqilxam. Even Chinook is a borrowed word: the Chinook historian Tony Johnson has said it was a Chehalis name for the people of this north shore, later stretched to cover them all, and that people once named themselves by village and headman rather than by tribe. The Chinook Indian Nation today joins the descendants of five peoples, the Lower Chinook, Wahkiakum, Kathlamet, Clatsop and Willapa. The old name stands at the park's entrance because the nation asked for it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Middle Village–Station Camp — 0.4 mi
  A Chinook trading town on the north shore of the Columbia's mouth, where the ground turned up more copper, glass beads and Chinese coins than tools.
• Astoria Column — 6.4 mi
  A railroad's 1926 monument to its own route, wrapped in a 525-foot spiral of Oregon history that ends with the train pulling into Astoria.
• Cape Disappointment — 7.2 mi
  The headland at the Columbia's mouth, named for a fur trader's mistake and fortified, lit and manned against the bar below it.
• Fort Clatsop — 7.9 mi
  The log post the Corps of Discovery named for its neighbors, and left to the Clatsop headman Coboway five days after stealing one of his people's canoes.

More markers nearby

• Fort Columbia — 0.7 mi
• Columbia River Explorers — 1.2 mi
• Fort Stevens State Park — 3.9 mi
• Tsunami - Seaside — 18 mi