Chimakum - Wikipedia
WebThe Chimakum, also spelled Chemakum and Chimacum Native American people (known to themselves as Aqokúlo and sometimes called the Port Townsend Indians [1] ), were a group of Native Americans who lived in the northeastern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay until their virtual extinction in …
Chimakum Language and the Chimakum Indian Tribe - Native Languages …
WebThe Chimakum no longer exist as a distinct tribe. Most Chimakum people merged into the Clallam and Skokomish tribes in the 19th century, where their descendants still live today. The Chimakum language is no longer spoken, but seems to have been either a dialect of Quileute or a closely related language.
Chemakum language - Wikipedia
WebChemakum ( / ˈtʃɛməkʌm / CHEM-ək-um; also written as Chimakum or Chimacum) is an extinct Chimakuan language once spoken by the Chemakum, a Native American group that once lived on western Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. It was closely related to the Quileute language, also extinct but undergoing revitalization in the early 21st century.
History | Quileute Tribe
WebBy legend, their only kindred, the Chimakum Tribe, were washed away by flood and deposited near present-day Port Townsend (where they lived until Chief Seattle’s Suquamish Tribe wiped them out in the 1860s), leaving the Quileutes with no known relatives on earth.
Chimacum, Washington - Wikipedia
WebChimacum, Washington. Coordinates: 122°46′W. Chimacum is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Washington, United States, located in the center of the primary agricultural area of the eastern Olympic Peninsula. [1] History. Olympic Mountains from the Chimacum Valley.
Natural Resources | Cultural Resources | Quileute Tribe
WebCultural Resources are all the aspects of Quileute life that have been an integral part of the tribe before European influence. They include the language, of course, but also the fish, game, and plants that essential for traditional livelihood, and the activities that foster a sense of community, such as story-telling, gift exchanges, dancing ...
Our History — The Chemakum Tribe
WebWho were the Chemakum? Where did they come from...and what happened to them? There is no evidence or oral tradition that the Chimakuan speakers, ancestors of the Quileute and Chemakum people of today, arrived from elsewhere.
Original Peoples | Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
WebThe Makah are a traditional maritime culture that derived most of their sustenance from whaling and sealing. They subsisted on seals, both marine and anadromous fish, and marine shellfish. They also hunted waterfowl and large land mammals. Berries, roots, and sprouts composed a small portion of their diets.
Chemakum language - Wikiwand
WebChemakum ( / ˈtʃɛməkʌm / CHEM-ək-um; also written as Chimakum or Chimacum) is an extinct Chimakuan language once spoken by the Chemakum, a Native American group that once lived on western Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. It was closely related to the Quileute language, also extinct but undergoing revitalization in the early 21st century.
More about the area's Native-American heritage--Chemakums/Chimacums
WebDec 25, 2012 · The Chimacums as a tribe disappeared more than a century ago. By the early 1850s, having experienced the ravages of war and pestilence, the Chemakums' numbers were described as 90. Not long...
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