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Chetco Indian Tribe
Location
Chetco. Own name, meaning
"close to the mouth of the stream."
Connections
The Chetco belonged to the Athapascan
linguistic stock and differed little in culture from the
other Athapascan groups immediately north of them and
the Tolowa to the south.
Location
On each side of the mouth of Chetco
River and about 14 miles up it as well as on Winchuck
River. (See also California.)
Villages
As recorded by Dorsey (in Hodge, 1907):
Chettanne, Khuniliikhwut, Nukhsuchutun, Setthatun, Siskhaslitun,
and
Tachukhaslitun, on the south side of Chetco River.
Chettannene, on the north side of Chetco River.
Nakwutthume, on Chetco River above all the other villages.
Thlcharghiliitun, on the upper course of a south branch of Chetco
River.
As recorded by Drucker (1937):
Hosa'tun, at the mouth of Winchuck River.
Natltene'tun, about where the modern town of Brookings stands.
Shri'choslintun, on Chetco River a little above the following.
Tcagitli'tun, on Chetco River at the mouth of the north Fork.
Tcet or Tcetko, at the mouth of Chetco River, really a town on each
side. Tume'stun, near Shri'choslintun.
Drucker adds that "the coast town which Parrish calls Wishtenatan
(Water man, xustene'ten) may have been affiliated more closely with
Chetco River than with the Lower Rogue River group."
Population
See Chastacosta. In 1854, a year after the Chetco had been
removed to the Siletz Reservation, they numbered 241. In 1861 they numbered 262.
In 1877 there were only 63 on the reservation. The census of 1910 returned 9.
Connection in which they have become noted
A river and a post hamlet in Curry County, Oregon,
perpetuate the name of the Chetco.
Additional Oregon Indian Resources
Notes About the Book:
Source: The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton, 1953, Bureau of
American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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