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Makah Indian Tribe
Location
Makah. Meaning "cape people."
Also called:
Ba-qa-ŏ, Puyallup name.
Cape Flattery Indians, from their location.
Classet, Nootka name, meaning"
outsiders."
Kwe-nēt-the-chat, own name, meaning "cape people."
Tlā'asath,
Nootka name, meaning "outside people."
Connections
The Makah belonged to the Nootka
branch of the Wakashan linguistic family.
Location
About Cape Flattery, claiming the
coast east as far as Hoko River and south to Flattery
Rocks, besides Tatoosh Island. Later they were
confined to the Makah Reservation.
Villages
Winter towns:
Baada, on Neah Bay.
Neah, on the site of the old Spanish fort, Port Nunez Gaona, Neah Bay.
Waatch, at the mouth of Waatch Creek, 4 miles from Neah Bay.
Summer
villages:
Ahchawat, at Cape Flattery.
Kehsidatsoos, location unknown.
Kiddekubbut, 3 miles from Neah Bay.
Tatooche, on Tatoosh Island, off Cape Flattery.
Population
Together with the Ozette, the Makah were estimated by Mooney
(1928) to number 2,000 in 1780, a figure evidently based on that given by Lewis
and Clark in 1805. In 1905 there were 435; the census of 1910 gave 360, and the
United States Indian Office Report for 1923 gave 425, including the people of
Ozette. In 1937, 407 were returned besides the Ozette Indians.
Connection in which they have become noted
The Makah and the Ozette are peculiar as the only tribes of
the Nootka group and the Wakashan stock in the United States.
Additional 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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