Native American Origins. CONTENTdm Collection : Compound Object Viewer. Timeline Washington State. Native American history. @import url(/css/print.css); Skip to content <a title="Log in to the proxy server" href=" Access</a> <Home ask us! Email | chat | phone | text Advanced Search Log into Your Library Account Libraries Home > Subject > History > Tm > Native American history This page is no longer being updated. Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe. Hoh Tribe. Tales from the Hoh and Quileute. Bibliography of Native North Americans. Shifting Boundaries Between Indians & Non-Indians in the Puget Sound Region. The Makah Nation -- On the Olympic Peninsula. The Makah Tribe: People of the Sea and the Forest. Introduction Like all living cultures, the Makah Tribe has undergone many changes since ancient times. Contemporary Makah children attend public school, wear blue jeans and Nikes, watch television, and play video games.
Today, Makah adults are just like other American adults in many respects. They attend college, surf the net, and make decisions that affect their families, health, and education. But unlike most other Americans, Makah people also attend potlatches, join ancient secret societies, and hunt gray whales. This study essay presents information about Makah people, history, and culture so that K-12 teachers, students, and other interested visitors can learn about Makah life through the millennia. Location The Makah people live on a reservation that sits on the most northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. In addition to its land territories, the Makah tribe reserved numerous ocean fishing banks and sea mammal hunting areas when the treaty was signed.
The Makah Indians - A Study of Political and Economic Organization. Chronology of Major Events Related to Makah Tribal Whale Hunt. Walterwilliams. The First Stage of the Federal Indian Policy in the Pacific Northwest, 1849-1852. Quileute Nation: History. Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves. Quinault Nation: History. Quinault Indian Nation: History II. The Quinault people reside on a reservation of 189,621 acres in northwestern Grays Harbor County, along Washington's coast. The word Quinault evolved from kwi'nail, the name of the tribe's largest settlement once situated at present-day Taholah, at the mouth of the Quinault River.
Taholah is the heart of the Quinault Indian Nation. The original Quinault flourished with access to good fishing (especially salmon and steelhead), hunting, berry picking and wood gathering. They fashioned immense cedar canoes. Lewis and Clark, on their famed trek to the Pacific Ocean, noted that the craft were "...upward of 50 feet long, and will carry 8,000 to 10,000 pounds' weight, of from 20 to 30 persons.... " The Quinault people remained isolated from European contact until they visited the Spanish vessel Sanora in their canoes on July 13, 1775.
In the 1820s, white trappers, traders and settlers began to discover the Quinault and other western Washington tribal homelands. See Indian Wars Time Table. Native American Rights Fund, US v. Washington, 1974, 384 F.Supp. 312, "Boldt Decision" (Cite as: 384 F.Supp. 312) U. S. v. State of Wash. ,D.C.Wash. 1974.
United States District Court, W.D. At Tacoma. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Quinault Tribe of Indians on its own behalf and on behalf of the Queets Band of Indians, et al., Intervenor-Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, Defendant, Thor C. Civ. Feb. 12, 1974, On Question Per Reconsideration Motion March 22, 1974,Injunction March 22, 1974. *325 Stan Pitkin, U.S. David H. Alvin J. . *326 Michael Taylor, Taholah, Wash., for Quinault Tribe of Indians. James B. Lester Stritmatter, Stritmatter & Stritmatter, Hoquiam, Wash., for Hoh Tribe of Indians.
William A. Slade Gorton, Atty. Joseph Larry Coniff, Jr., Asst. Earl R. David E. Lawrence C. William N. T. BOLDT, Senior District Judge. Plaintiffs also assert claims for relief concerning alleged destruction or impairment of treaty right fishing due to state authorization of, or failure to prevent, logging and other industrial pollution and obstruction of treaty right fishing streams.
Quinault Treaty, 1856. Quinault Treaty, 1856 Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded by and between Isaac I. Stevens, governor and superintendent of Indian affairs of the Territory of Washington, on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, headmen, and delegates of the different tribes and bands of the Qui-nai-elt and Quil-leh-ute Indians, on the part of said tribes and bands, and duly authorized thereto by them.
There shall, however, be reserved, for the use and occupation of the tribes and bands aforesaid, a tract or tracts of land sufficient for their wants within the Territory of Washington, to be selected by the President of the United States, and hereafter surveyed or located and set apart for their exclusive use, and no white man shall be permitted to reside thereon without permission of the tribe and of the superintendent of Indian affairs or Indian agent. The annuities of the aforesaid tribes and bands shall not be taken to pay the debts of individuals. Isaac I.