FDI - Quileute

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Quileute

*Ethnie:*	QUILEUTE
*Language:*	Quitleut
*Family:*	Chimacuan
*Stock:*	Chimacuan
*Phylum:*	Chimakuan
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern

Speakers

1977 SIL

The Quileute were a sedentary coastal hunter/gatherer tribe which relied heavily on fishing. They were located along the Quileute River and its neighboring coast. They had early conflicts with Whites.

Aboriginal Locations (Villages)

WA (1)

Present Locations

WA Makah Reservation, Neah Bay

Quileute Reservation, La Push

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, Robert Gray began trading with tribe
1808	Russian Ship Svatoli Nikolai wrecked on tribal shore, survivors enslaved for some months until ransomed by American traders
1824	Visited by John Work via inland route
1830	Measles epidemic
1841	Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts followed
1855	Treaty of Neah Bay established Makah Reservation
1856	Quinault Treaty established Quileute Reservation
1889	One square mile reservation established by Executive Order, 26 houses soon burned by settler
1934	Tribe adopted constitution

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	500	NAHDB calculation
1800	400	NAHDB calculation
1900	300	NAHDB calculation
1910	303	Census
1937	284	US Indian Office
1973	260	BIA (Quileute Reservation only)
1981	327	BIA
1985	383	BIA
1989	597	BIA
2000	650	NAHDB calculation
2002	706	IHC

Other speakers of the same language:

Hoh

Quileute Tribes Sites:

Chimacuan Linguistic Linage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=1855

Chimacum http://www.answers.com/topic/chimacum-1

James Island http://www.forks-web.com/fg/jamesisland.htm

Marco Black of Quileute Tribe http://olympiccoast.noaa.gov/bigpic/native6_BodyPic.html

Quileute Basket Movie http://www.edb.utexas.edu/teachnet/qtvr/QuilBask.htm

Quileute Constitution and By-Laws http://thorpe.ou.edu/IRA/quilcons.html

Quileute History http://www.ocean-park.org/cu_history.html

Quileute Tribal Profile http://www.npaihb.org/profiles/tribal_profiles/Washington/Quileute%20Tribal%20Profile.htm

Quileute Tribe http://www2.ihs.gov/PortlandAO/about/quileute.asp

Quileute Tribe http://www.forks-web.com/fg/quileute.htm

Quileute Tribe http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1565.html

Quileute Tribe of Olympic National Park http://www.clallam.net/Maps/assets/applets/wetlands_p16.pdf

Quinault Treaty of 1856 http://historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2633

Treaty of Neah Bay ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wa/indians/treaties/neah_bay.txt

Treaty of Quinault ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wa/indians/treaties/quinault.txt