Twana

Twana is the collective name for a group of nine Coast Salish peoples in the northern-mid Puget Sound region, most of whom are extinct or are now subsumed into other groups and organized tribes. The Skokomish are the main surviving group and self-identify as the Twana today. The language spoken by these peoples is closely related to Lushootseed and is also called Twana.

For the language, see Twana language.
Portrait of a Quilcene boy, circa 1913

The nine groups were known by their locations, the nine groups were the Dabop, Quilcene ("salt-water people"), Dosewallips, Duckabush, Hoodsport, Skokomish (Skoko'bsh), Vance Creek, Tahuya, and Duhlelap (Tule'lalap).[1] Of these nine sub-communities of Twana, by 1860 there were 33 settlements in total, of which the Skokomish were the largest.[2][3][4][5] Most descendants of all groups now are part of the Skokomish Tribal Nation and live on the Skokomish Indian Reservation at Skokomish, Washington.[6] The reason they all are there at the one location is that they were all forced to move to Skokomish after the Point No Point Treaty in 1855.[7]

See also

References
  1. Donald B. Ricky (1 April 1999). Indians of Oregon. North American Book Dist LLC. pp. 482–. ISBN 978-0-403-09866-8. Twana society is defined as a speech community, sharing largely common customs and a single drainage area territory, but lacking any political unity. Within this domain, there were nine Twana winter village sites: Dabop, Quilcene, Dosewallips, Duckabush, Hoodsport, Skokomish, Vance Creek, Tahuya, and Duhlelap.
  2. Wray, Jacilee (2003). Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-8061-3552-6. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  3. Elmendorf, William Welcome (1993). Twana narratives: native historical accounts of a Coast Salish culture. UBC Press. p. xxix. ISBN 978-0-7748-0475-2. Retrieved 3 November 2010. See also map on page 2
  4. Wray, Jacilee (2003). "Skokomish: Twana Descendants". Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-8061-3552-6. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  5. http://hood.hctc.com/~skok1/ The Skokomish Tribal Nation
  6. Culture and History of the Skokomish Tribe, Skokomish Tribal Nation website Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. ReVisioning American History. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-5783-4.
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