Quinault

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Historically, the Quinault were one of several tribes that lived on or near the Pacific coast in the state of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. These tribes engaged in an intertribal system of trade, marriage, feasting, and raiding, and spoke the Chinook jargon. The extinct Quinault language was in the Salishan family. Since their relocation to the Quinault Indian Reservation, the name Quinault is associated with all the Indians who live on the Reservation, regardless of their historical tribal affiliations. The contemporary Quinault have a common identity based on shared residency and the collective struggle for control over their natural resources. In 1975 the Quinault reorganized their government and ratified the Constitution of the Quinault Indian Nation. The Nation includes some of the descendents of the Quinault, Queets, Hoh, Quileute, Chehalis, Chinook, and the Cowlitz tribes.

Identifier

Region

• North America

Subregion

• Northwest Coast and California

Subsistence Type

• hunter-gatherers

Samples

• EA
• SRS

Countries

• United States

External Links

• Quinault (Binford Hunter-Gatherer) D-PLACE
• Quinault (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE
• Quinault (Western North American Indian database) D-PLACE