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Tillamook Indian Tribe
Location
Tillamook. A Chinook term meaning "people of Nekelim (or Nehalem).
Also spelled Calamox, Gillamooks, Killamook, etc.
Higgahaldahu, Nestucca name.
Kyaukw, Alsea name.
Nsietshawas, so called by Hale (1846).
Si ni'-tĕ-lǐ, Mishikwutmetunne name for this tribe and the Alsea, meaning "flatheads."
Connections
The Tillamook were the principal
tribe in Oregon belonging to the Salishan linguistic
family, coastal division.
Location
The coast from the Nehalem to Salmon
River.
Subdivisions
Nehalem, on Nehalem River.
Nestucca, on Nestucca Bay and the streams flowing into it. Salmon River,
on the river of that name.
Tillamook, on Tillamook Bay and the streams flowing into it, including the
following villages enumerated by Lewis and Clark:
Chishucks (at the mouth of Tillamook River)
Chucktin (the southernmost Tillamook village, on a creek emptying
into Tillamook Bay)
Kilherhursh (at the entrance of Tillamook Bay)
Kilherner (on Tillamook Bay, at the mouth of a creek 2 miles from
Kilherhursh)
Towerquotten (on a creek emptying into Tillamook Bay)
Population
See Siletz. Lewis and Clark estimated 2,200 Tillamook in
1805. In the reports of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition (1845) their number is
given as 400, and by Lane in 1849 as 200. The census of 1910 returned 25, and
that of 1930, 12.
Connection in which they have become noted
The Tillamook seem to have been the most powerful tribe on
the coast of Oregon. A bay, and also a county and its capital in the former
country of the tribe preserve the name; also a cape, Tillamook Head.
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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