While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Alsea (corruption of Alsi', the aboriginal name). A
Yankonan tribe formerly occupying a small territory at and about the mouth
of Alsea River, western Oregon. Little is known of the early history
of the tribe of which there are now only a dozen survivors on the Siletz
Reservation, Oregon. According to Dorsey (Jour. Am. Folk-lore, III,
229, 1890) the following are the former Alsea villages:
North of Alsea River
Kutauwa
Kyamaisu
Kaukhwan
Kakhtshanwaish
Khlokhwaiyutslu
Mekumtk
Shiuwauk
Tachuwit
Yukhais
South Side of the river.
Chiink
Kwamk
Thiekuhweyuk
Kauhuk
Kwulisit
Thlekushauk
Khlimkwaish
Panit
Yahach
Klbusht
Skhakhwaiyutslu
Milhau (in letter to Gibbs) gave
Neahumtuk as an Alsea village at the mouth of Alsea River, which has not
been identified
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