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Quileute myths proclaim that the two-sided mythical character known as Dokibatt and K’wa’iti was responsible for creating the first human of the Quileute tribe by transforming a wolf. In the beginning there were five tribal societies that represented the elk hunter, the whale hunter, the fisherman, the weather predictor, and the medicine man .
Quileute / ˈ k w ɪ l ɪ j uː t /, [2] sometimes alternatively anglicized as Quillayute / k w ɪ ˈ l eɪ j uː t /, is an extinct language, and was the last Chimakuan language, spoken natively until the end of the 20th century by Quileute and Makah elders on the western coast of the Olympic peninsula south of Cape Flattery at La Push and the lower Hoh River in Washington state, United States.
Quileute also acquired the (presently rare) phonemes ƛ tƚ and g which occur primarily in loans but also a few words and morphemes of uncertain origin (and in the case of ƛ, phonemization of the biconsonantal sequence *t‿ƚ). The development of Chemakum, on the other hand, has seen more significant changes.
In the story of the 'Warm and Cold Wind People' it is said that someone, possibly Raven, ordained that the people send out the winds. [8]: 230 He appears again in the story of "The Great Flood", which accounts for the killing of the evil ancestors who used their powers to take away the sun, moon, and Dipper which were lost during the flood.
The Quileute Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation for the Quileute people located on the northwestern Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The reservation is at the mouth of the Quillayute River on the Pacific coast. La Push, Washington is the reservation's main population center.
This somewhat vague definition was further confused by the way the Makah cession boundary had been defined as extending south to the lands occupied by the Quileute. This circular definition , along with the unclear phrases about where the line ran through the Olympics, resulted in confusion and legal problems which continue to the present day.
In the Quileute language the name is /kʷoʔlíːyot'/, which perhaps derived from /kʷolíː/ ("wolves"), [2] and was the name of a village at La Push. The Quillayute River is the current, traditional, and ancestral center of the territory of the Quileute Native Tribe , which before European settlement occupied the entire drainage basin (plus ...
La Push is a village of the Quileute Tribe that displays a slower, more relaxed way of life. [citation needed] All of the businesses are owned by the tribe. The Quileute Tribe has revived many of its traditional skills and crafts, which are taught at school along with the unique language.