The Quinault Indian Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz people. They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
The Quinault language is the traditional language of the Quinault people of Washington State. It belongs to the Salishan language family, a large family of Native languages spoken in the Pacific Northwest and neighboring regions. Language is more than a list of words. It carries memory, humor, family ties, place names, songs, stories, and ways of seeing the world. A language can hold a whole shoreline inside a single phrase. That is why the preservation and revitalization of the Quinault…
There are no Native American vampire stories that display the distinctive characteristics of European vampires (associated with bats, unable to withstand sunlight, killed by a stake through the heart, casting no shadow or reflection, weaknesses to garlic and running water, or the ability to turn their victims into another vampire by biting them.) There is nothing equivalent to that in traditional Native American folklore. But there are plenty of monsters that do have some similarity with vampires.
Quinault Indian Reservation The Quinault Indian Reservation is located in Washington State on the southwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula. It is home to the Quinault Indian Nation, whose people include descendants of the Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples. The Quinault people are one of the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Their homeland is a place of forests, rivers, lakes, ocean beaches, salmon runs, cedar trees, and long memory. The reservation lies between the…
The Upper and Lower Chehalis, are the principle tribes that make up today's Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. Some Klallam, Muckleshoot, Nisqually, and Quinault peoples are also members of this federally recognized tribe.
The Hoh Indian Tribe are considered to be a band of the Quileutes but are recognized as a separate tribe. Located at the mouth of the Hoh River on the western Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, the tiny Hoh Indian Tribe is dependent on the fish and wildlife of the Hoh River for their subsistence and commercial economy. This federally recognized indian tribe takes it's name from the principal river in their territory.