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The Quileute language is an isolate, as the only related indigenous people to the Quileute, the Chimakum, were destroyed by Chief Seattle and the Suquamish people during the 1860s. The Quileute language is one of only six known languages lacking nasal sounds (i.e., m and n ).
The Quileute Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation for the Quileute people located on the northwestern Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The reservation is at the mouth of the Quillayute River on the Pacific coast. La Push, Washington is the reservation's main population center.
La Push is a small unincorporated community situated at the mouth of the Quillayute River in Clallam County, Washington, United States, in the Western Olympic Peninsula.La Push is the main population center within the Quileute Indian Reservation, which is home to the federally recognized Quileute tribe.
Quileute / ˈ k w ɪ l ɪ j uː t /, [2] sometimes alternatively anglicized as Quillayute / k w ɪ ˈ l eɪ j uː t /, is an extinct language, and was the last Chimakuan language, spoken natively until the end of the 20th century by Quileute and Makah elders on the western coast of the Olympic peninsula south of Cape Flattery at La Push and the lower Hoh River in Washington state, United States.
During the late 20th and early 21st centuries a revitalization effort began, and it is today spoken as a second language by a relatively small amount of the Quileute tribe on the west coast of the Olympic Peninsula, south of Cape Flattery. The name Quileute comes from kʷoʔlí·yot' [kʷoʔléːjotʼ], the name of a village at La Push.
The Quinault Indian Nation (/ k w ɪ ˈ n ɒ l t / or / k w ɪ ˈ n ɔː l t /; QIN), formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples. [4] They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people of Indigenous peoples of the Pacific ...
The Quinault Treaty (also known as the Quinault River Treaty and the Treaty of Olympia) was a treaty agreement between the United States and the Native American Quinault and Quileute tribes located in the western Olympic Peninsula north of Grays Harbor, in the recently formed Washington Territory.
The Quileute are a Native American people in western Washington state in the United States, currently numbering approximately 2000. Their language belongs to the Chimakuan languages family. The native name for Raven among the Quileute is Báyaḳ (By-yuhk). [35]: 9