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Quinault · quinault · quinaielt · Quinault Indian Nation · Chehalis · Chinook · Cowlitz · Hoh · Queets · QuileuteQuinault
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- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Quinault as a party: Treaty of Olympia / Quinault River (Quinault, Quileute), 1855-56.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 1 cession of land from Quinault. It came through treaties and agreements.
One court case turned on its rights: Haaland v. Brackeen.
The records group it with Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington. Today, Quinault Indian Nation carries 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.
Names
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Official names
Land recorded as ceded
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
1 cession. Follow Quinault through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Quinault Indian Nation
- Duwamish Tribe
- Snohomish Tribe of Indians
- Steilacoom Tribe
- 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
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 5
- Land of the Quil-leh-ute and Qui-nai-elt in Washington, ceded 1855 (area 371)1855matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Quil-leh-ute and Qui-nai-elt in Washington (area 372)1855matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Quillehute and Quinaielt in Washington (area 551)1855as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Chehalis, Chinook and others in Washington, recorded 1864 (area 458)1864matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Chehalis, Chinook and others in Washington (area 459)1864matched by the Forest Service, under review
Part of 1
Party to 1
Named in 1
Includes 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/01/30/2026-01899.txtprimary record
Quinault Indian Nation
- quinaultindiannation.com/171/About-Usunclassified
The Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) consists of descendants of the Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz people.
Research notes
NARA Quinaielt.
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