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Tututni Indian Tribe
Location
Tututni. Meaning unknown.
Also called:
H'lilush, Nestucca name.
Lower Rogue River Indians, or Rogue River Indians, from their habitat.
Talemaya, Umpqua name.
Ta-qu'-gflc-cis, Chetco name, meaning "northern language."
Connections
The Tututni belonged to the Athapascan linguistic stock, and
were related closely with the Mishikhwutmetunne.
Location
On lower Rogue River and the Pacific
coast north and south of its mouth.
Villages
J. O. Dorsey (1884) gave the
following villages or bands:
On the north coast of Rogue River:
Chemetunne, popularly called Joshuas, just north of Rogue River.
Kaltsergheatunne, at Port Orford.
Kosotshe, between Port Orford and Sixes Creek, perhaps earlier on Flores
Creek. Kwatami, on or near Sixes River.
Kthukwuttunne.
Kthutetmeseetuttun, just north of Rogue River.
Kwusathlkhuntunne, said to have been at the mouth of Mussel Creek, 5 miles
south of Mount Humbug.
Natutshltunne, between Coquille River and Flores Creek.
Niletunne, the first village south of the Miluk village of Nasumi, south
of Coquille River.
Yukichetunne, on Euchre Creek.
On Rogue River:
Chetlesiyetunne, on the north side.
Enitunne, near the mouth of a southern affluent of Rogue River.
Etaatthetunne.
Kunechuta.
Kushetunne, on the north side.
Mikonotunne, on the north side 14 miles from its mouth.
Nakatkhaitunne, on
the north side of Rogue River.
Targheliichetunne, on the north side.
Targhutthotunne, near the coast.
Testthitun, on the north side.
Thechuntunne, on the north side.
Thethlkhttunne, or Chastacosta, on the north side.
On or near the coast south of Rogue River:
Aanetun.
Chetleschantunne, on Pistol River and the headlands from the coast 6 miles
south of Rogue River.
Khainanaitetunne.
Kheerghia, about 25 miles south of Pistol River.
Khwaishtunnetunne, near the mouth of a small stream locally called Wish
tenatin, after the name of the settlement, that enters the Pacific about
10
miles south of Pistol River, at a place later known as Hustenate.
Natthutunne, on the south side of Rogue River.
Nuchumatuntunne, on the north side of Rogue River near the mouth.
Sentethltun, on the south side of Rogue River and perhaps at its mouth.
Skumeme, on the south side of Rogue River near its mouth.
Tsetintunne, the highest of 4 villages on a stream emptying into Rogue
River
near its mouth.
Tsetuttunne.
Drucker (1937) gives the following village names:
On Rogue River:
Gwi'sat huntun, on Mussel Creek near Sixes River and sometimes separated
as
the Sixes tribe.
Kusu'me, on what is now called Flores Creek.
Kwataime, a short distance
north of last.
Kwuse'tun, near and possibly a suburb of Megwinb'tun, on the coast.
Megwino'tun, a few miles up river.
Skame'me, between Pistol River and mouth of Rogue River; Waterman places
it at Hunter's Creek.
Sukwe'me or Sukwe'tce, at mouth of Sixes River.
Tagrili'tun, a suburb of
Tu'tutun.
Tce'metun or Tce'me, really two towns, one on each side of the river's
mouth. Tce'tlersh tcuntun, on Pistol River, perhaps belonging to the
Chetco.
Tu'tutun, 5 to 6 miles from the river's mouth, divided into two
parts called
Tatre'tun, "downriver," and Na'gutretun "upriver."
Yukwe'tce or Yu'gwitce,
on what is now called Euchre Creek.
Berreman (1937) makes seven major divisions as follows:
Kwatami or Sixes
River; Euchre Creek (Yukichetunne);
Mikono tunne;
Pistol River (Chetleschantunne);
Joshua;
Tututunne (Tututni);
Kwaishtunne
Khustenete.
Population
(See Chastacosta.) In 1854 the Tututni population was 1,311.
The census of 1910 returned 383, but in 1930 the United States Indian
Office gave only 41 under this name, 55 under that of "Meguenodon" (see
above), and 45 under that of "Joshua" (Tce'metun).
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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