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Shoshone
The Shoshone or Shoshoni ( or ), also known by the endonym Newe, are an Indigenous people of the United States with four large cultural/linguistic divisions: Eastern Shoshone: Wyoming Northern Shoshone: Southern Idaho Western Shoshone: California, Nevada, and Northern Utah Goshute: western Utah, eastern Nevada
Nez Perce
Native American tribe
Chinook people
group of indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest.
Modoc people
Northwestern Native American people
Klamath people
ethnic group
Bannock people
ethnic group
Cayuse people
ethnic group
Coast Salish peoples
group of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Umatilla
ethnic group
Kalapuya people
The Kalapuya or Kʼalapʰuya are a Native American people, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually intelligible dialects. The Kalapuya tribes' traditional homelands were the Willamette Valley of present-day western Oregon in the United States, an area bounded by the Cascade Range to the east, the Oregon Coast Range at the west, the Columbia River at the north, to the Calapooya Mountains of the Umpqua River at the south.
Klickitat
People
Shasta people
indigenous ethnic group of Western United States
Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin
Native Americans of the northern Great Basin, Snake River Plain, and upper Colorado River basin
Tolowa people
The Tolowa people (), or Taa-laa-wa Dee-niʼ, are an Athabaskan nation of Native Americans. Two rancherías (Smith River and Elk Valley) still reside in their traditional territory in northwestern California. Those removed to the Siletz Reservation in Oregon are located there.
Walla Walla people
North American Indian Tribe from Eastern Washington State, US
indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau
regional culture in North America
Tillamook
ethnic group
Northern Paiute
Native American tribe in eastern California
Karuk
The Karuk people () are an indigenous people of California, and the Karuk Tribe is one of the largest tribes in California. Karuks are also enrolled in two other federally recognized tribes, the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria and the Quartz Valley Indian Community.
Wasco–Wishram
thumb|240px|right|Wishram woman in bridal garb, 1910. Photo by Edward CurtisThe Wasco-Wishram are two closely related Chinook Indian tribes from the Columbia River in Oregon. Today the tribes are part of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs living in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation living in the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington.
Takelma people
The Takelma are a Native American people who originally lived in the Rogue Valley of interior southwestern Oregon. Most of their villages were sited along the Rogue River. They spoke the Takelma language, which is a linguistic isolate.
Clatsop people
The Clatsop (Lower Chinook: ) are a Chinookan-speaking Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In the early 19th century they inhabited an area of the northwestern coast of present-day Oregon from the mouth of the Columbia River south to Tillamook Head, Oregon. Today, Clatsop descendants are members of the federally recognized Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, as well as the unrecognized Chinook Indian Nation and Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes.
Coos people
indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau in Oregon
Siuslaw people
people
Molala people
The Molala are a Native American people of Oregon that originally resided in the Western Cascades. There are few recorded sources about the Molala, the majority being unpublished manuscripts. This assortment includes the works of Albert S. Gatschet, Franz Boas, Leo J. Frachtenberg, Philip Drucker, Melville Jacobs, and Leslie Spier.
Alsea people
The Alsea are a Native American tribe of Western Oregon. They are (since 1856), confederated with other Tribes on the Siletz Reservation, Oregon, and are members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.
Yaquina people
tribe of Native Americans living on the Siletz Reservation in Oregon
Multnomah people
Native American tribe near Portland, Oregon
Umpqua people
indigenous people of present-day Oregon
Sahaptin peoples
thumb|Yakama women in 1911 The Sahaptin are a number of Native American tribes who speak dialects of the Sahaptin language. The Sahaptin tribes inhabited territory along the Columbia River and its tributaries in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Sahaptin-speaking peoples included the Klickitat, Kittitas, Yakama, Wanapum, Palus, Lower Snake, Skinpah, Walla Walla, Umatilla, Tenino, and Nez Perce.
Tenino people
Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, also known as the Warm Springs bands
Siletz people
The Siletz (pronounced sih-lets) were the southernmost of several divisions of the Tillamook people speaking a distinct dialect; the other dialect-divisions were: Salmon River on the Salmon River, Nestucca on Little Nestucca River, Nestucca River and Nestucca Bay, Tillamook Bay on the Tillamook Bay and the mouths of the Kilchis, Wilson, Trask and Tillamook rivers, and Nehalem on Nehalem River. The name "Siletz" comes from the name of the Siletz River on which they live. The origin of the name is unknown (perhaps Oregon Athabaskan? variants: Salǽˑtʃʼɪtʃʽ, Sai-lĕtc-́ĭc qûn-nĕ, and Sii-lee-ch'ish
Clackamas people
Native American people in what is now Oregon
Coquille people
Native American tribe
Atfalati
thumb|Wapato plant The Atfalati , also known as the Tualatin or Wapato Lake Indians are a tribe of the Kalapuya Native Americans who originally inhabited and continue to steward some 24 villages on the Tualatin Plains in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Oregon; the Atfalati also live in the hills around Forest Grove, along Wapato Lake and the north fork of the Yamhill River, and into areas of Southern Portland.
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians
federally recognized Native American Nation in Oregon, USA
Latgawa
Latgawa are Native American people who lived in the Rogue Valley of interior southwest Oregon. In their own language "Latgawa" /latʰka:wàʔ/ means "those living in the uplands," though they were also known as the Walumskni by the neighboring Klamath tribe.
Tututni people
The Tututni tribe is a historic Native American tribe, one of Lower Rogue River Athabascan tribes from southwestern Oregon who signed the 1855 Coast Treaty, and were removed to the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon. They traditionally lived along the Rogue River and its tributaries, near the Pacific Coast between the Coquille River on the north and Chetco River in the south. Lower Rogue River Athabascan (also called Tututni) tribes are a group of Athabascan tribes (the Tututni, Upper Coquille and Shasta Costa) who were historically located in southwestern Oregon in the United States and spe
Chetco people
tribe of Native Americans
Burns Paiute Tribe
federally recognized tribe in Oregon, United States
Shasta Costa
people group native to southwestern Oregon
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
federally recognized Indian tribe in Oregon; confederation of Native American tribal bands