COQUILLE PEOPLE

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The 'Coquille' are a Native American tribe centered in southwest Oregon in the United States, where the Coos River flows into Coos Bay.

Contents

Groups

Language

Lifestyle

History

Mid 1800s to the present

Groups

The Coquille groups included the Upper Coquille (Mishikwutinetunne), Kwatami, Shasta Costa, Dakubetede (Applegate), and Tututni. Tututni subtribes include the Yukichetunne, Tututni, Mikonotunne, Chemetunne, Chetleshin, Kwaishtunnetunne, and Taltushtuntede (Galice).

Language

The Coquille language is an extinct Athabaskan language classified as part of the Tolowa-Galice branch of the Oregon Coast indigenous languages.

Lifestyle

The lifestyle of the Coquille, like many Northwest Coast tribes, involved fishing and collecting of shellfish.

History

Mid 1800s to the present

Main articles: Coquille Indian Tribe#History

After the treaty of 1855, the Coquille people were forced to move to the Coastal Indian Reservation (now the Siletz Reservation). Today Coquille people may be part of one of two tribal entities: the Coquille Indian Tribe or the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz.