Klallam
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Klallam people near canoe
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Klallam boys carrying clams on beach
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chief Chits-a-man-han & wife
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Coast Salish style canoe
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Klallam men in western clothes on beach
Klallam (also Clallam, although this spelling is disliked by the Klallam community) refers to four distinct but otherwise related bands of Native Americans from western Washington state in the United States and British Columbia in Canada. Three Klallam bands live on the Olympic Peninsula in the far northwest corner (bordering the Strait of Juan de Fuca) of the state and one at Becher Bay on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
- Klallam (Lower Elwha) Native American subtribe
- S'Klallam (Jamestown) Native American subtribe
- S'Klallam (Port Gamble, aka Little Boston) Native American subtribe
- Becher Bay Reserve
See also: Klallam language, Coast Salish.
External links
- Elaine Grinnell, Klallam storyteller and basket & drum maker (http://www.nwfolklife.org/P_ED/nativeamerican.html#grinnell)
- Washington Post: "Northwest Tribe Struggles to Revive Its Language" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A54559-2003Mar30¬Found=true)
- Klallam language (http://www.ling.unt.edu/~montler/Klallam/)
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Klallam pole for netting ducks