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  Quileute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quileute tribe linguistically belongs to the Chimakuan family of languages among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples.
The Quileute language is one of a kind, as the only related aboriginal people to the Quileute, the Chemakum, were wiped out by Chief Seattle and the Suquamish people during the 1860s.
The Quileute language is one of only five known languages to not have any nasal sounds (m, n).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quileute   (209 words)

  
 NMNH - Repatriation Office - Reports - Northwest - Clallam County
The former was determined to have been equally as likely to be affiliated with the Chemakum as with the Clallam, while the latter was determined to be culturally affiliated with the Clallam based on the sum of the available evidence.
The Chemakum tribe is no longer extant, having been partially absorbed into neighboring Clallam villages.
Based on the historic circumstances, as well as the provenience and archival information, both sets of remains were offered for return to the Jamestown Clallam in consultation with the other two Clallam communities at Lower Elwha and Port Gamble.
www.nmnh.si.edu /anthro/repatriation/reports/regional/northwest/clallm_county.htm   (717 words)

  
 Myron Eells
Eells eventually equipped the Smithsonian Institution with the vocabularies from the Chemakum, upper and lower Chehalis, Clallam, and Twana tribes, the Skwaksin dialect of the Niskwalli people, and Chinook Jargon.
Among his published writings were Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Languages (1879), Ten Years at Skokomish (1886), Twana, Clallum, and Chemakum Indians of Washington Territory (1886-1887), and over 1250 news paper articles, pamphlets, and letters for the Smithsonian Institution and for popular and mission-orientated magazines.
Eells' most extensive and comprehensive unpublished work was The Indians of the Puget Sound which was a compilation of six volumes consisting of sketches, notes, and pieces from his published works.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/eells_myron.html   (548 words)

  
 Public Anthropology
When George Gibbs studied the Chemakum, they had a population into the 90’s.
She rarely spoke Chemakum at the time of the interview, saving the dying language for her brother, the last man who spoke Chemakum.
According to Boas, she was "somewhat addicted to liquor, and as she herself and the white man with whom she lived indulged alternately in their libations, the conditions for the collections of good linguistic material were not very favorable" (37).
www.publicanthropology.org /Archive/Aa1892.htm   (10754 words)

  
 Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe - Land & People & Lifestyle - Culture and History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Point No Point Treaty was signed by representatives of the S’Klallam, Skokomish, and Chemakum tribes on January 26, 1855.
The S'Klallam, Skokomish, and Chemakum ceded or surrendered approximately 750,000 acres of land to the federal government under the treaty, but reserved their aboriginal right to fish, hunt, and gather.
The federal government promised the services of a physician, flsmith, carpenter, and farmer to teach necessary skills, and a school was also to be provided.
www.pgst.nsn.us /content/culture_history   (2843 words)

  
 Chimakuan languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was spoken until the 1940s on east side of the Olympic Peninsula between Port Townsend and Hood Canal.
The name Chemakum is an Anglicized version of a Salishan word for the Chemakum people, such as the nearby Twana word Čə́bqəb [ʧə́bqəb].
It is spoken by a few people south of the Makah on the western coast of the Olympic peninsula south of Cape Flattery at La Push and the lower Hoh River.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Chimakuan-languages.htm   (228 words)

  
 Nisei Republic - ThroneWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nisei: Still digging out of the icy rubble, the Nisei began to settle the ruined city of New Yedo in Chemakum again, and opened some buildings for the university and the government (though they were still located elsewhere).
The North Pacific Squadron was very busy too, shuttling troops back from the very-far-flung outpost on Kazan Retto to Chemakum, then loading up a new crop of hopeless idiots brave settlers to found a new trading post on the Ice-damned, howling wilderness, coast of Kamchatka.
Instead, he sent his men out to patrol Chemakum province and collect taxes and began styling himself King of Amerika (or at least prince of Chemakum).
wiki.throneworld.com /wiki/index.php/Nisei_Republic   (7145 words)

  
 Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe - Land & People & Lifestyle - "Pride is Our Heritage"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Credit for keeping them out of the conflict was is given to the reigning chief of that period: Chet-ze-moka, also known as the Duke of York.
By treaty times, S'Klallam, Chemakum and Twana groups were sharing sites around Port Townsend and Port Gamble, drawn to employment and marketing opportunities created by these non-native settlements established in the mid-ninetenth century.
The Twana, Chemakum and Klallam Indians of Washington Territory.
www.pgst.nsn.us /content/culture_history/pride_heritage.htm   (2577 words)

  
 Tlingit - Arctic Studies Center
Click in the left side of the picture for the previous culture, or on the right to move back to the view of the Alaskan peoples.
he Tlingit are the northenmost of the Northwest Coast peoples (which also includes, among others, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Nootka, Salishan, Chemakum, Chinook, and Makah) who lived traditionally by fishing and hunting marine animals and built large plank houses, totem poles, and ocean-going dugout canoes.
They were skillful traders and utilized their excess wealth on luxuries given away at splendid feasts (potlatches) which served to honor the dead and to maintain or elevate the rank of aristocrats.
www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/features/croads/tlingit.html   (322 words)

  
 nwcbibe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Chemakum Vocabulary, manuscript No. 272, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
The Chemakum Language, American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal 3(1): 52-54.
The Twana, Chemakum, and Klallam Indians of Washington Territory, Annual Report for 1887, Smithsonian Institution, Pages 605-81.
ctl.unbc.ca /anderson/bib/nwcbibe.html   (1998 words)

  
 History
The Klallam, Chemakum, and Twana occupied the land around "Kah-Tai", the present-day Port Townsend.
Since this headland had little running water, it is unlikely that any tribe used the future Port Townsend area as a permanent village.
The Chemakums lived on land from Discovery Bay to the mouth of Hood Canal.
www.fortworden.org /history.html   (1895 words)

  
 Port Townsend, Washington History and Heritage
In some places disease - notably smallpox and measles - killed 90% of the Indians; by the time white settlers arrived local tribes had populations of no more that a few hundred and were so weakened they could not effectively resist the intruders.
American Indian tribes located in what is now Jefferson County in the mid-19th century included the Chemakum (or Chimacum), Hoh (a group of the Quileute), Klallam (or Clallam), Quinault and Twana (the Kilcid band - Anglicized: Quilcene).
There is only one reservation (created in 1893) in Jefferson County: the Hoh occupy 640 acres on the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Hoh River on the west end.
www.ptguide.com /history   (979 words)

  
 NAGPRA NOTICES OF INVENTORY COMPLETION: Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects from the Naval Ordnance Center, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Based on the archeological context and radiocarbon dates of surrounding material, the four individuals from the Bugge Spit site have been determined to be Native American, dated to be approximately 300 years old.
Around 1850, a series of battles between the Chemakum and the S'Klallam and Suquamish tribes ended in the virtual destruction of the Chemakum.
Historic documents indicate the surviving Chemakum were absorbed into the neighboring S'Klallam villages.
www.cast.uark.edu /other/nps/nagpra/DOCS/nic0254.html   (518 words)

  
 NAGPRA NOTICES OF INVENTORY COMPLETION: Human Remains, Associated Funerary Objects, and an Unassociated Funerary Object ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1976, these human remains were transferred to the Burke Museum by the Museum of History and Industry, WA.
Based on anthropological and historical records, Marrowstone Island has been identified as the traditional territory of the Chemakum.
By the 1850s, the Chemakum were living with the S'Klallam, and were associated with the S'Klallam in the records of the period.
www.cast.uark.edu /other/nps/nagpra/DOCS/nic0130.html   (599 words)

  
 Cranial Relationships Main Page
There are several other minor groups which need to be accounted for, which probably arrived before the Siberian major groups.
These would include the earliest Brazilians, the Pericue (Baja California), Beothuk (Labrador and New Foundland), Yuki (California), Chemakum (Western Washington), and Fraser River, BC Old Cordilleran.
ABSTRACT: Relationships based on cranial measurements were examined for Siberia, Northeast Asia, and some American populations.
www.geocities.com /straitssalish/preamerica   (807 words)

  
 American Indian Collections at the APS
English words and sentences with Chemakum equivalent; incomplete.
ANDRADE, MANUEL J. Notes on the relations between Chemakum and Quileute; ed.
Notebook 3: shorthand notes on Salish tribes; ethnographic shorthand notes on Lower Fraser, Bella Coola, Puyallup; vocabularies for Gitamat, Bella Coola, Chemakum, Puyallup.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/indians/info/chi.htm   (3718 words)

  
 Northwest Coast Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Keywords: Bella Coola, Chehalis, Chemakum, Chimakuan, Chinook, Clallam, Coeur d'Alene, Columbia Salish, Colville Okanagan, Gitskan, Haida, Haisla, Halkomelem, Heiltsuk (Bella Bella), Kalispel, Kutenai (Kootenay), Kwakiutl, Kwakwala, Lummi, Lushootseed, Makah, Nass, Nishga, Nitinaht, Nootka, Northwest Coast, Oowekyala, Puget Salish, Quileute, Quinault, Salishan, Sechelt, Shuswap, Siletz, Snohomish, Spokane, Squamish, Straits Salish, Thompson, Tillamook, Tsimshian, Twana, Wakashan, Wishram.
Notes on the relations between Chemakum and Quileute, IJAL 19:212-5.
Collins, J.M. Distribution of the Chemakum language in Indians of the Urban Northwest, ed.
www.lib.montana.edu /~bcoon/nwcst.html   (5048 words)

  
 (GCGFYN) Salsbury Point Park by CrimsonWrath
In Either case, keep an eye out for the dark Trident submarines as they slip by, or brace for a rip-roaring storm.
The original occupants of this area were Chemakum, Skokomish, Suquamish, and Clallam tribes, who shared hunting, fishing, and gathering rights here.
After European settlers moved into the area, a sawmill was built at what is now the town of Port Gamble.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=80871   (820 words)

  
 Eells (1996) The Twana, Chemakum, and Klallam Indians of Washington territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eells (1996) The Twana, Chemakum, and Klallam Indians of Washington territory
Twana Indians; Chemakum Indians; Clallam Indians; History; Social life and customs
To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
www.getcited.org /?PUB=100118957&showStat=Ratings   (96 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Twana, Chemakum, and Kallam Indians of Washington Territory: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Amazon.ca: The Twana, Chemakum, and Kallam Indians of Washington Territory: Books
The Twana, Chemakum, and Kallam Indians of Washington Territory
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www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0877705852   (172 words)

  
 History of Native Inhabitants on the Kitsap Peninsula   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For thousands of years before European exploration charted the waters of Puget Sound, several large communities of native people inhabited this area.
Tribe names like Suquamish, S'Klallam, Chemakum, Skokomish and Toanhooch were considered wealthy due to the abundance of food and other resources that coastal waters and forests provided.
On the shores of Agate Pass near Port Madison Bay is a small site called Old Man House Park.
www.visitkitsap.com /culture/history.html   (446 words)

  
 Civilization Gaming Network Forums - CGN Native American Dip - Spring 1604
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(A Athapaskan - Kalapuya) bounce 2v2 with Chemakum
Well, a couple of tribes appear to have had a long hard winter, and chose to stay in camp rather than go raiding this spring.
www.civgaming.net /forums/printthread.php?t=1860   (275 words)

  
 kulkahhan
Keith Wheller, a local designer specializing in natural boulder placement, created an aesthetically pleasing arrangement in The Mountain Garden.
Sara Mall Johani, originator and co-founder of Wild Olympic Salmon, named the gardens after Chief Kul Kah Han, the last known Indian chief of the Chemakum tribe who, in the 1850s lived not far from the gardens and used many of these native plants on a daily basis.
Wild Olympic Salmon invites other non profit organizations who wish to demonstrate their support of native plants to be represented on the planning board.
www.olympus.net /edu/wos/kulkahhan/kulkahhan.htm   (646 words)

  
 Over Night Sildenafil Citrate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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www.benway-uk.com /sildenafil-citrate/over-night-sildenafil-citrate.html   (1233 words)

  
 Resources on the Chehalis
Thousands of NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES for your dog, horse, cat...
Northwest Calapuya, Cathlamet, Chehalis, Chemakum, Chetco, Chilluckkittequaw, Chinook,
Chehalis (Upper and Lower) Washington; Chemakum Washington; Chetco; Chilliwak; Chinook
www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/north_american/Chehalis.html   (634 words)

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