Hoh people
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The Hoh or Chalá·at ("Those-Who-Live-on-the-Hoh River" or "People of the Hoh River") are a
Name
The name of the Hoh River, and the Hoh who were named after it, is derived from the Quinault language name for the river, húxw.[1]
The Hoh call themselves Chalá·at or Chalat' (′People of the southern river, i.e. Hoh River′) after their name for the Hoh River Cha’lak’at’sit or Chalak'ac'it, which means the "southern river".
History
In aboriginal times, there was nothing secluded about the Hoh Watershed, even its upper reaches. No less than seven permanent settlements were situated along the banks of the Hoh, most with a fish trap. The river served not only as a riverine thoroughfare leading to their fishing sites and their hunting, trapping, and foraging grounds, it was also the nursery of the salmon and home of freshwater fishes that they harvested as part of their annual cycle. The watershed included the sites of the burials of their ancestors, the hidden locations of their empowering guardian spirits, and the family campgrounds and upstream summer-homesites near resource gathering areas that were heritable family property. Besides that, there were named landmarks, sites associated with ritual and mythic occurrences, and riverside trails. The Hoh (Chalá·at) people refer to both their traditional lands and their reservation as ChalAt’i’lo t’sikAti, (′the land belonging to the people who live at the Hoh River′).[2][3]
Though the Hoh (Chalá·at) are today considered to be a band of the
The lifestyle of the Hoh, like many Northwest Coast tribes, involved the fishing of salmon.
Ethnobotany
The
See also
- Hoh Rainforest
- Hoh River
- Makah
References
- ISBN 9780806135984.
- ^ - Hoh Tribe - Chalá·at: People of the Hoh River - Cultural Resources
- ISBN 9780806153667
- ^ Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 67
- Hoh Reservation, Washington United States Census Bureau
External links
- Tribal website
- Hoh tribe profile at the website of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum A web-based museum of the history and culture of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula communities