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The Russian schooner Nikolai ran aground on a beach north of the Quillayute River in 1808. The crew was killed or enslaved. [16] Quileute tradition has many accounts of un-dated shipwrecks. One is of a French side-wheeled paddle steamer. The shipwrecked crew lived at La Push for many years, and called the mouth of the river "La Bouche."
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.
The Quillayute River (also spelled Quileute River) is a river situated on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. It empties to the Pacific Ocean at La Push, Washington . The Quillayute River is formed by the confluence of the Bogachiel River , Calawah River and the Sol Duc River near the town of Forks , WA.
Quillayute may refer to: Quileute (tribe) , or the Quillayute, a Native American people of western Washington state, United States Quillayute, also known as Quileute, a Chimakuan language of the Quileute and Makah people of western Washington state in the United States; see Quileute language
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The Quillayute River system, with its main tributaries of the Bogachiel, Sol Duc, Calawah, and Dickey Rivers, drains the largest watershed on the north Olympic Peninsula. The name "Bogachiel" is a corruption of the Quileute words bo qwa tcheel el , or /boqʷač'íʔl/ , from /bó:q'ʷa/ , "muddy", and /číʔlowa/ , "water", meaning "gets riley ...
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The reservation is at the mouth of the Quillayute River on the Pacific coast. La Push, Washington is the reservation's main population center. The 2000 census reported an official resident population of 371 people on the reservation, which has a land area of 4.061 km 2 (1.5678 sq mi, or 1,003.4 acres).