Tillamook
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Oregon
Tillamook is a Chinook name which means “people of Nekelim.” It was more often spelled and pronounced “Killamook.” The Tillamook were the principal and probably most powerful tribe on the Oregon coast in the early nineteenth century. They lived along a long coastal strip extending from Tillamook Head (near Seaside) to the Siletz River in Lincoln County.
Their population in the early nineteenth century has been estimated at about twenty-two hundred. The Tillamook lived primarily in numerous small villages built near the mouths of the main rivers that flow into the Pacific....
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