Tillamook

"The Tillamooks were formerly called by other names, such as the Calamoxes. They lived on the Pacific Coast of Oregon between Nehalem and the Salmon River and from the crest of the Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean. The word tillamook  is said to mean 'land of many waters.' The anthropologist Franz Boas said it means 'people of Nekelim, or Nehalem'" (Ruby and Brown, p. 240). Names of Tillamook groups:Nehalem, Tillmook, Nestucca, Salmon River, Siletz Region: Northern Oregon coast # of speakers: extinct

       "SALISHAN  The coastal division of the Salishan family occupied the coastal area of British Columbia from the Strait of Georgia south through the Puget Sound area of Washington State, along the coast as far south as the Siletz River, Oregon, except around the mouth of the Columbia River (occupied by the Chinook). There was one detached northern branch, the Bella Coola of Burke Channel, British Columbia. The Coast Salish practised the wealth and gift distribution ceremony known as the Potlatch, particularly in the north where they were influenced by the Kwakiutl culture. They generally lived in cedar plank houses facing rivers or the sea; and, where in contact with the Kwakiutl, have a tradition of complex wood-carving art which weakened to the south into simpler art forms. Two dominant subsistence and material resources among the Salish were salmon and red cedar, and they excelled in basketry and textiles. They were essentially a river and bay people in a heavy forest area with a moist, mild climate." (Johnson, p. 170)

       "TILLAMOOK  The Coast Salish domain was broken by the Chinook on the lower Columbia River, but they reappear south of that great river in present northwestern Oregon. The Tillamook and closely related bands, Nehalem and Nestucca, lived around the Nehalem and Salmon Rivers in present Tillamook County, Oregon, and were the largest Coast Salish group south of the Columbia. Lewis and Clark estimated the group at 2,200 in 1805, but they had declined to 200 by 1900. A few Nestuccas appear to have been reported amongst the Grand Ronde Indians. The census of 1970 gave 139 for the whole group.

       "SILETZ  The southernmost Salish tribe on the river which bears their name, in Lincoln County, Oregon. Remnants were included on the Siletz Reservation as part of the much larger "Confederated Siletz" and are no longer reported separately." (Johnson, p. 173)