FDI - Coquille

The Coquille was a sedentary hunter/gatherer tribe of the area of the Coquille River drainage and a small portion of Coos Bay at South Slough. The Pacific Coast Athapaskans arrived in the area late in the first millennium from Canada. The tribe was placed, with others, on the Coast Reservation as a result of the Rogue River Wars, and later all were removed to the Siletz Reservation where they confederated with other tribes while others filtered by to their aboriginal territories.

Year	*History*
1841	Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts followed
1847	Measles epidemic
1853	Rogue River gold discovery
1855	Rogue River War began with Lupton Massacre followed by Capt. John Rampage killing up to 40 Whites ... the Galice attack, and battles at Hungry Hill and Black Bar
1856	Gold Beach Uprising, 12 Indians killed at Massacre Rock, up to 30 killed at Meadows Battle, Indians surrendered after Battle of Big Bend, 1,200 moved to the Coast Reservation
1954	Termination Act terminated tribe
1989	Tribal status restored

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	3,700	NAHDB calculation
1800	3,700	NAHDB calculation
1900	200	NAHDB calculation
2000	800	Tribe
2000	800	NAHDB calculation

Coquille Sites:

Constitution of the Coquille Tribe http://doc.narf.org/nill/Constitutions/coquilleconst/coqconsttoc.htm

Coquille http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/Oregon/coquille.html

Coquille Indian Tribe http://www.coquilletribe.org/

Coquille Indian Tribe http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1542.html

Coquille Indian Tribe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coquille_Tribe

Coquille Indian Tribe, Portland Office http://www.ihs.gov/FacilitiesServices/AreaOffices/Portland/portland-tribe-coquille.asp

Coquille Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=COQ

Coquille Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=COQ

Coquille Restoration http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/25/chapters/14/subchapters/xxx-e/toc.html

Coquille Tribal Forest http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&db_id=cp104&r_n=sr314.104&sel=TOC_47997&

Indians of the Coast http://boyett.tripod.com/siletz.html

New Wealth of History ... http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co07142001/CO_07142001_Coquille.htm

Northwest: Oregon Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_california-oregon_culture.htm

Oregon Indian Tribes http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/oregon/

Salmon Ceremonies http://www.leg.state.or.us/95reg/measures/hb2500.dir/hb2562.int.html

Southwest Oregon Research Project http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied/hn/hn_2002_researchproj.htm

Tututni Language http://www.native-languages.org/tututni.htm

*Ethnie:*	COQUILLE
*Language:*	Coquille dialect of Tolowa-Galice
*Family:*	Pacific Coast Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Athapaskan
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern