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Umpqua Indian Tribe
Location
Umpqua. Significance unknown.
Amgútsuish, Shasta name.
Cactan'-qwût-me'tûnne, Naltunne name.
Ci-cta'-qwŭt-me'tûnnĕ, Tututni name, meaning "Umpqua River people."
Ci-sta'-qwût, Chastacosta name.
Etnémitane, own name (Gatschet, 1877).
Tsan Ámpkua amín, Luckiamute Kalapuya name, meaning "people on the
Umpqua."
Upper Umpqua, Berreman (1937).
Yangalá‘, Takelma name.
Connections
The Umpqua belonged to the Athapascan
linguistic stock.
Location
On upper Umpqua River, east of the Kuitsh.
Subdivisions
The Umpqua on Cow Creek are often spoken of separately under the name
Nahankhuotana. Parker (1840) mentions a people called Palakahu which was
probably an Athapascan or Yakonan tribe but cannot now be identified, and
also the Skoton and Chasta, probably parts of the Chastacosta or Tututni.
This is
all the more likely as he includes the Kwatami band of the Tututni and the
entirely independent Chilula of California. Their chief village was Hewut.
Population
(See Dakubetede.) Hale (1846) says that in his time the Umpqua
were supposed to number not more than 400. In 1902 there were 84 on Grande
Ronde Reservation. The census of 1910 returned 109. In 1937, 43 Indians
are given under this name. (See Chastacosta and Dakubetede.)
Connection in which they have become noted
Umpqua River, and the settlement of Umpqua or Umpqua Ferry
in Douglas County, preserve the name.
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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