CONQUILLE INDIANS OF OREGON

DAI S'LA IN THEIR LANGUAGE MEANS WELCOME FRIENDS. THEY BELIEVE IN PRESERVING THE PAST IN ORDER TO HAVE FUTURE. THEY STRIVE TO ESTABLISH A LONG TIME SELF SUFFICIENCY FOR OUR TRIBAL MEMBERS AND FROM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH NON TRIBE ENTITIES. THEY LIVE ON THE KILKICH RESERVATION. THEY USED TO BE KNOWN AS MISHIKHWUTNETUNNE WHICH MEANS "PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREAM". THEY SETTLED IN THE MISHI STREAM BEFORE THEIR PRESENT LOCATION. THIS TRIBE WAS ONCE ATHABASKAN BAND OVER 6000 YEARS OLD. THEY USED TO DWELL IN THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF OREGON ON THE COQUILLE RIVER. SINCE THEN THEY WERE CALLED THE COQUILLE TRIBE. THEY ALSO SETTLED IN SOME AREAS ALONG THE ESTUARIES AND BAYS. THEY SPOKE THREE LANGUAGES - CLATSKANIE, UMIPQUA, AND COQUILLE-TOLOWA. THEY ALSO SETTLED IN SOME AREAS ALONG THE ESTUARIES AND BAYS. THEY SPOKE THREE LANGUAGES CLATSKANIE, CLATSKANIE, UMIPQUA. COQUILLE - TOLOWA.

THEIR HOMES WERE LEAN TO CEDAR PLANK HOUSES. THEY ATE DEER, SALMON, AND ACORNS AND THRIVED IN THEIR RICH ENVIRONMENT. THEY LIVED BY THEMSELVES AND WERE HAPPY UNTIL THE SETTLERS CAME. THERE WERE AROUND 8000 NATIVES AND ONCE THE SETTLERS CAME THEY DID GOT SMALLPOX WHICH KILLED THOUSANDS! MALARIA ALSO KILLED THOUSANDS AS THEY HAD NO IMMUNITY TO THESE DISEASES. THEY HAD REVOLTS WITH THE MINERS AND DEATHS OCCURRED. THE COQUILLE TRIBE WAS FORCED TO MOVE OUT OF THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS AND WENT TO THE SILETZ RESERVATION BY 1857. TODAY THEY ENGAGE IN SEVERAL BUSINESS VENTURES. MANY MEMBERS HAVE BUSINESS ENTERPRISES. SOME INCLUDE EDUCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES. SOME INCLUDE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND SECURITY SERVICES. AGRICULTURE IS A THRIVING INDUSTRY. THEY WERE A SEDENTARY HUNTER/GATHERER TRIBE AT COOS BAY SLOUGH. THE PACIFIC COAST ATHAPASKANS ARRIVED IN THE AREA LATE IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM FROM CANADA. THEY WERE ON THE COAST RESERVATION WITH OTHERS. LATER THEY ALL MOVED TO THE SILITZ WHERE THEY WERE CONFEDERATED WITH OTHER TRIBES, WHILE OTHERS FILTERED TO THEIR ABORIGINAL TERRITORIES. THEY ORIGINALLY HAD 37 VILLAGES. IN 1954 THE TERMINATION ACT OF 1954 TERMINATED THE TRIBE. IT WAS RESTORED IN 1989. HUCKLEBERRIES WERE AN IMPORTANT FOOD TO THIS TRIBE.

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