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Mishikhwutmetunne Indian Tribe
Location
Mishikhwutmetunne.
Signifying "people who live on the stream called Mishi."
Also called:
Coquille, or Upper Coquille, from their habitat.
De-d'á tené,
Tutuni name, meaning "people by the northern water."
Ithalé tĕni,
Umpqua name.
Kukwil', Alsea name (from Coquille).
Connections
The Mishikhwutmetunne belonged to the Athapascan linguistic stock, their
relations being particularly close with the Tututni.
Location
On upper Coquille River.
Villages
The following were recorded by J. O. Dorsey (1884):
Chockreletan, near the forks of
Coquille River.
Chuntshataatunne
Duldulthawaiame
Enitunne
Ilsethlthawaiame
Katomemetunne
Khinukhtunne
Khweshtunne, next above Coquille City. people and below Coquille
City.
Kimestunne
Kthukhwestunne
Kthunataachuntunne
Meshtshe
Nakhituntunne
Nakhochatunne
Natarghiliitunne
Natsushltatunne
Nilestunne
Rghoyinestunne.
Sathlrekhtun
Sekhushtuntunne
Sunsunnestunne.
Sushitakhotthatunne.
Thlkwantiyatunne
Thltsharghiliitunne
Thltsusmetunne
Thlulchikhwutmetunne
Timethitunne
Tkhlunkhastunne, next to the Kusan
Tsatarghekhetunne
Tthinatlitunne, at the site of Coquille
Tulwutmetunne
Tuskhlustunne
Tustatunkhuushi
Drucker (1937) recorded besides:
Hweshtun (perhaps partly Kusan)
Natgrilitun
Stonerutltutl, a suburb of Natgrilitun.
Tlunhoshtun, said to have come from Umpqua.
Population
(See Chastacosta.) The census of 1910 returned 15 Mishikhwutmetunne under the
name Upper Coquille.
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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