Quileute tribe
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The Quileute a/k/a the Quillayute are a Native American people in western Washington state in the United States, currently numbering approximately 2000. The Quileute people settled onto the Quileute Indian Reservation (47°54′23″N 124°37′30″W) after signing the Quinault Treaty in 1855. It is located near the southwest corner of Clallam County, Washington at the mouth of the Quillayute River on the Pacific coast. The reservation's main population center is the community of La Push, Washington. The 2000 census reported an official resident population of 371 people on the reservation, which has a land area of 4.061 km² (1.5678 sq mi, or 1,003.4 acres).The Quileute tribe is run by their own government inside the United States, which consists of a tribal council with staggered 3 year terms. The current tribal council consists of: Tony Foster (chairman), Charles Woodruff (vice-chair), Naomi Jacobson (secretary/ treasurer), Crystal Lyons (treasurer), and Catherine Salazar (member at large).
The Quileute language belongs to the Chimakuan family of languages among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples. The Quileute language is one of a kind, as the only related aboriginal people to the Quileute, the Chimakum, were wiped out by Chief Seattle and the Suquamish people during the 1860s. The Quileute language is one of only 6 known languages lacking nasal sounds (i.e., m and n). Like many Northwest Coast natives, in pre-Colonial times the Quileute relied on fishing from local rivers and the Pacific Ocean for food and built plank houses (longhouses) to protect themselves from the harsh, wet winters west of the Cascade Mountains. The Quileute, along with the Makah, were once great whalers. |
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Taholah Village Relocation Master Plan
Aalto University helps Native Americans relocate after whales warn of impending tsunami
The history of Major Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes and the Tsunami's they generator as a well known fact at this point thanks to some excellent and reconstruction of events on Bradley lake OR (Kelsey et. al) and along the WA coast (e.g. Atwater's work) over the past few decades.
http://www.oregon.gov/dsl/SSNERR/docs/tsunami_OregonReport.pdf
http://www.science.earthjay.com/instruction/chemeketa/research_paper/atwater_1987_holocene_earthquakes_washington.pdf
The last major event was 1700. The last event was so severe is dropped parts of the coast by more than 20', swept native coastal communities (including the tribes), swept large trees on top of some of the coastal bluffs more than 100' high--that same event today would do horrific damage. The period of quakes averaging about 350 years by range of about 150 to 700 years (reconstructions go back ~4500 years), the public is becoming increasingly aware of the danger and putting forth quite a bit of effort to mitigate the risk through education, building codes, evacuation routes, notification systems etc. If the tribe wants to add whale whispering to spread the science and get the word out--good for them.
Taholah Village Relocation Master Plan
Aalto University helps Native Americans relocate after whales warn of impending tsunami
The history of Major Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes and the Tsunami's they generator as a well known fact at this point thanks to some excellent and reconstruction of events on Bradley lake OR (Kelsey et. al) and along the WA coast (e.g. Atwater's work) over the past few decades.
http://www.oregon.gov/dsl/SSNERR/docs/tsunami_OregonReport.pdf
http://www.science.earthjay.com/instruction/chemeketa/research_paper/atwater_1987_holocene_earthquakes_washington.pdf
The last major event was 1700. The last event was so severe is dropped parts of the coast by more than 20', swept native coastal communities (including the tribes), swept large trees on top of some of the coastal bluffs more than 100' high--that same event today would do horrific damage. The period of quakes averaging about 350 years by range of about 150 to 700 years (reconstructions go back ~4500 years), the public is becoming increasingly aware of the danger and putting forth quite a bit of effort to mitigate the risk through education, building codes, evacuation routes, notification systems etc. If the tribe wants to add whale whispering to spread the science and get the word out--good for them.
