Quinault Indian Nation

A nation today

Moss-draped bigleaf maples and old-growth conifers along the Hall of Mosses loop in the Hoh Rain Forest.
PKThundr7, Wikimedia Commons (2015) · CC BY 4.0

Background

Descendants of the Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook and Cowlitz people make up the Quinault Indian Nation. The Nation calls itself the Canoe People, the people of the cedar tree, and lists what western redcedar gave them: logs for canoes, bark for clothing and split boards for houses. Quinault ancestors lived in family groups in long houses up and down a river on a physical and cultural dividing line, wide sandy beaches to the south and rugged cliff-lined beaches to the north. By-laws of 1922 and a constitution approved in 1975 form the foundation of the modern government. A General Council meets the last Saturday in March to hold elections, allocate fishing grounds and discuss tribal operations, and a Quinault Business Committee of four executive officers and seven council members carries the executive, business and legislative work in between. The reservation encloses more than 208,150 acres and 23 miles of Pacific coastline, and close to 700 people are employed by the Nation and its enterprises.

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Visit and learn

Quinault Indian Nation'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 Quinault Indian Nation says it is the Canoe People, the people of the cedar tree, and that its ancestors lived in long houses up and down a river on a dividing line where beaches to the south are wide and sandy and to the north are rugged and cliff-lined. The reservation, more than 208,150 acres, sits on the southwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula. Source

Programs

  • Quinault Housing Authority

    The Nation's housing authority, managing 128 units in the villages of Taholah, Queets and Qui-nai-elt Village, developed with funding from the 1937 Housing Act, Indian Housing Block Grant and Low Income Tax Credit.

    https://www.quinaultindiannation.com/27/Government·other

Sources

Checked September 2026.

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