FDI - Chimacum

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Chimacum

*Ethnie:*	Chimacum
*Language:*	Chimacuan
*Family:*	Quileute
*Stock:*	Quileute
*Phylum:*	Quileute
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern

Speakers

The Chimacum were a sedentary coastal hunter/gatherer tribe located on the peninsula between Hood's Canal and Port Townsend. They had severe conflicts with their neighbors and were nearly destroyed, especially in a battle with tribes under Chief Seattle. The survivors confederated into the Skoskomish.

Aboriginal Locations (Villages)

WA (?)

Present Locations

Skoskomish Reservation, Shelton

Year	*History*
1787	Strait of Juan de Fuca discovered by Charles Barkley
1790	Manual Quimper explored both shores of strait
1792	Area charted by Capt. George Vancouver
1840	Devastating raid by Suquamish on stockaded village
1841	Influx of Oregon Trail settlers, conflicts began
1847	Nearly destroyed in attack by Snoqualmie
1854	Clallum took much of vacated territory
1860	Tribe essentially wiped out by Duwamish and Suquamish under Chief Seattle

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	400	NAHDB calculation
1780	400	Mooney estimate
1800	400	NAHDB calculation
1855	90	Gibbs
1900	0	NAHDB calculation (Had confederated into other tribes)
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

None

Chimacum Tribes Sites:

Chimakuan Language Family http://www.aaanativearts.com/chimakuan_language_family.htm

Kul Kah Han http://olympus.net/edu/wos/kulkahhan/kulkahhan.htm

Quileute Language http://www.native-languages.org/quileute.htm

Quileute Language http://globalrecordings.net/language/212

Quileute Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=qui

Quileute Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=qui

Treaty of Point No Point ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wa/indians/treaties/pt-no-pt.txt