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The Korku tribe lives in small groups of huts made of grass and wood. Every household has an elevated stage-like structure at the front side of the house. This elevated stage is used as a storage space for farm produce such as cattle feed. They consume liquor made from the flowers of the Mahua tree which is prepared in almost all the houses.
Location of Reservation Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation: 833 4,215 Southeastern Grays Harbor County and southwestern Thurston County: Colville Indian Reservation: 9,353 1,400,000 Primarily in the southeastern section of Okanogan County and the southern half of Ferry County: Cowlitz Reservation: 4,800 152 Ridgefield, WA (Clark ...
Kalama was first settled by Native Americans, particularly members of the Cowlitz Indian Tribes.Others maintain that the town name is associated with John Kalama (c. 1814 – c. 1870), [5] a carpenter from the Hawaiian island of Maui who came to the Pacific Northwest on a fur-trading vessel in the 1830s.
The village was a common trading site for Indians in the surrounding areas, [3] acting as a link between tribes from the Pacific Coast, and the interior Northwest. The site was visited by nearby Yakamas , as well as those from as far away as the Nez Perce , who would come to trade fish, berries, skins, buffalo, amongst many other items.
The Chimakum, also spelled Chemakum and Chimacum, Native American people (known to themselves as Aqokúlo and sometimes called the Port Townsend Indians [1]), were a group of Native Americans who lived in the northeastern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay until their virtual extinction in 1902.
Tse-whit-zen (č̕ixʷícən [t͡ʃʼiˈxʷit͡sən] in the Klallam language, meaning "inner harbor" [3]) was a 1,700- to 2,700-year-old village of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe located along the Port Angeles, Washington waterfront.
University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections. Archived from the original on 18 June 2006; Speer, Thomas R. (2004). "Duwamish history and culture". from "Dkhw'Duw'Absh, 'People of the Inside'". Duwamish Tribe. Archived from the original on 3 April 2006; Switzer, Jeff (20 February 2005).
Skokomish is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mason County, Washington, United States. The population was 617 at the 2010 census . The town is the headquarters of the Skokomish Indian Tribe .