Hoh Tribe — RoamSchoolFamily

Background

Chalá·at is the Tribe's own name for its people, People of the Hoh River, and it calls the river itself chalak’At’sit, the southern river. Its history page says the Hoh River Indians were considered a band of the Quileutes but are recognized as a separate tribe, and that the Hoh Indian Reservation was established by an executive order in 1893 and consists of 443 acres 28 miles south of Forks, 80 miles north of Aberdeen, with about a mile of beach front running east from the mouth of the Hoh River and south to Ruby Beach. The Tribe's own front page says it moved onto the reservation at the mouth of the river after the signing of the Quinault Treaty on July 1, 1855, and the history page adds that the reservation was logged in 1954, that it will be 40 to 60 years before the second growth is of commercial value, and that none of the land has been allotted. Government is a Tribal Business Committee elected by secret ballot in November of every other year by the General Council, and the Tribe's stated vision is to ensure its future as a strong, sovereign nation by continuing to preserve and instill its inherent cultural and spiritual traditions and values.

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Visit and learn

Hoh Tribe's own site

Tribal lands have their own laws. Check the nation's site before you visit.

Parks on its homelands

Moss-draped bigleaf maples and old-growth conifers along the Hall of Mosses loop in the Hoh Rain Forest.

Olympic National Park

The Hoh Tribe calls the Hoh River chalak'At'sit, "the southern river," and says the river is focal in Hoh tribal identity and in traditional economic patterns. The Hoh reservation, created by executive order in 1893, runs about a mile of beach front from the river mouth south to Ruby Beach. Source

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