Makah Tribe
The Makah (Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx, "People of the Cape") are a Wakashan-speaking people of the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in present-day Washington State. They are the only Wakashan-speaking tribe in the contiguous United States and are renowned as skilled maritime hunters and fishers. The Makah did not meet the expedition and signed no treaty in its era; their treaty with the United States is the Treaty of Neah Bay (1855). They appear in this database through the broader treaty record of the region. The Makah Tribe is headquartered at Neah Bay, Washington.
Portrait: Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia: Makah Cultural and Research Center
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