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Quileute · quileute · quil-leh-ute · Quileute Tribe of the Quileute ReservationQuileute
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- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Quileute as a party: Treaty of Olympia / Quinault River (Quinault, Quileute), 1855-56.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 2 cessions of land from Quileute: about 1.1 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Quil-leh-ute and Qui-nai-elt in Washington, ceded 1855 (area 371), about 1.1 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Olympia / Quinault River (Quinault, Quileute), 1855-56.
The records group it with Quinault and Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington. Today, Quileute Tribe of the Quileute Reservation and Quinault Indian Nation carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
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Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement1 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
2 cessions. Follow Quileute through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Quileute Tribe of the Quileute Reservation
- Quinault Indian Nation
- Duwamish Tribe
- Snohomish Tribe of Indians
- Steilacoom Tribe
- Quinault
- Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 3
- Land of the Quil-leh-ute and Qui-nai-elt in Washington, ceded 1855 (area 371)1855as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Quil-leh-ute and Qui-nai-elt in Washington (area 372)1855as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Quillehute and Quinaielt in Washington (area 551)1855matched by the Forest Service, under review
Part of 2
Present-day governments that carry this history 2
Party to 1
Sources
- federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/01/30/2026-01899.txtprimary record
Quileute Tribe of the Quileute Reservation
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