| Names of Coquille groups: Upper Coquille, Upper Umpqua, Cow Creek, Kwatami, Shasta Costa, Chetco, Tolowa, Dakubetede (Applegate) Numbered Tututni tribes: (1)Yukichetunne, (2)Tututni, (3)Mikonotunne, (4)Chemetunne, (5)Chetleshin, (6)Kwaishtunnetunne, (7)Taltushtuntede (Galice)
Genetic affiliation
More about the Athapascan family
Region:Southern Oregon coast
# of speakers: Probably no speakers left (1977 SIL)*
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"Originally, the Coquilles were known by their native name, which was spelled in English
Mishikhwutmetunne and meant "people living on the stream called Mishi, or Misha."
(Ruby and Brown, p. 64)
"COQUILLE Sometimes known as Upper Coquille, or Mishikhwutmetumme; an Athabascan tribe on the east fork of the Coquille River, Oregon, west of Myrtle Creek. They lived in lean-to houses of cedar planks and subsisted on acorns, deer, and fish including salmon. Some were forced onto the Siletz Reservation, where 15 'Upper Coquille' were reported in 1910. A mixed blood faction known as the 'Coquille tribe' are a few dozen people of Coos-Coquille extraction living in their old location who are today seeking settlement of their land claims. The 'Confederated Tribes of Siletz' numbered about 900 shortly before termination of reservation status in 1956; the Coquille were one of many ancestries who form the group." (Johnson, p. 178)
* Tolowa: 5 speakers or fewer (1977 SIL)
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