Behind the Scenes The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves

Long ago, Jw35ti, the Transformer, changes wolves to the ancestors of the K20/l85yor people at First Beach in present day La Push. Other spirit beings, like Dasniya 1974 (kelp-haired monster) and R8srilal (Thunderbird), shape Boldt decision asserts the and the local land forms into its Quileute fishing rights. present-day appearance. 1976 Jay Powell and Vickie Jensen publish book 1930s 2005–present Quileute: An Cessation of sealing. 1961 Introduction to the Author Frances Densmore records Hood Canal Bridge Indians of La Push casts the Quileute as Quileute music, published by completed. based on linguistic werewolves in her book, the Library of Congress. and ethnographic and in later books 1775–1792 1850s 1860s 1880s 1963 1905–09 1914–22 collaboration with in the series. The movie Ocean Beach Resort built at Exploration of Pacific Chimakuan speakers Settlers Quileute travel to Puget Sound to Albert Reagan, Indian agent Fannie Taylor, postmistress at After protests, U.S. Quileute tribal Twilight debuts in 2008; La Push, now Oceanside Resort. coast by the Spanish, decimated; Quileute arrive in pick hops, engage in commercial and school teacher at Mora, Mora, writes diaries, takes photo- government gives members; language in 2009; British and Americans only surviving Quileute fishing and logging. encourages drawings by Quileute graphs and collects baskets, now Highway 101 Olympic loop Quileute $112,000 teaching materials in 2010 and (h95kwar or “the drifting- speakers of the territory. school children. at National Museum of Natural completed in 1931 creating access as compensation and curriculum will house people”). language. History (Smithsonian Institution). for tourists. for 688,000 acres. also produced. release in 2011.

12,000 1808 1846 1856 1883 1888 1893 1895 1904 1907 1912 1916–17 1929 1934 1936 1939 1950 1969 1975 1980 1989 1997 2008 before present Russian-American Britain and Quinault Treaty Alanson Wesley Homesteader sets fire Hoh reservation Shaker religion Cessation Edward Curtis Non-Native cannery Leo J. Frachtenberg, Manuel Andrade, a Harry Hobucket, Quileute adopts George Pettitt, Neighboring Hoh Tribal office Quileute Tribal Quileute participate Quileute host annual Calling the Whale Archaeology places Company ship signed by Quileute Smith, first school- to village of La Push established. established in village of whaling. photographs established, employs ethnologist, makes student of Franz Quileute tribal tribal constitution established; includes stationed at La Push establishes tribal building opens. School established in the Paddle to canoe journey. Ceremony established people on the St. Nicholas wrecks boundary formed. chief How-yat’l and master at La Push, and 25 longhouses are of La Push. the Quileute. Natives who are ethnographic study, Boas, collects member, publishes and bylaws. traditional homelands Coast Guard office in government. at La Push. Seattle, the first of at the Quileute Olympic Peninsula. at mouth of Quill- subchief Kal-lape, but until 1905. burned; pre-contact also involved with records songs and language and other legends in of the Quileute. 1940s, publishes the modern canoe Tribal School. ayute River, 20 men Quileute remain in artifacts, ceremonial commercial fishing stories and collects cultural information. historical study. journeys; Quileute and women survive their own territories regalia, fishing and and logging, until artifacts for George Historical Quarterly. canoe-making and some are and continue as whaling equipment 1980s decline of these Heye (National Coast Guard station revitalized in held captive by fishermen, whalers, destroyed. resources and stricter Museum of the established; new Indian Reorganization late 1970s. the Quileute. sealers and hunters. environmental laws. American Indian). building completed Act provides funds Quileute maintain Village rebuilt by the in 1980. for Quileute and prairies for plant Quileute. others to allow Natives foods. to return to self- President Cleveland government and signs executive order tribal management creating one-mile of assets. reservation for 252 Quileute on February 19, 1889.

Washington becomes 42nd state.

1896 Quileute men with seals after hunt 1900 Quileutes unloading canoes on beach 1905 Quileute buildings with view of 1907 Quileute children 1930 Quileute Chief Howeattle 1955 Men with fishing net on Quileute 1976 Quileute: An 1989 Blessing of canoes before Paddle 2009 Quileute children welcoming whales, 2010 Wolf Pack, Twilight Saga: Eclipse Samuel G. Morse, ca. 1896, University of Washington Libraries, at La Push James Island Sarah Endicott Ober, ca. 1907, University of Washington demonstrating building canoe Indian Reservation Introduction to the to Seattle First Beach, La Push Courtesy Special Collections, NA725 Libraries, Special Collections, NA4100 Fannie Taylor, ca. 1900, University of Washington Libraries, Edmond S. Meany, 1905, University of Washington Libraries, ca. 1930, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, MOHAI J. W. Thompson, ca. 1955, J.W. Thompson Collection, MOHAI Indians of La Push Courtesy Quileute Tribe Archive Photo by Chris Cook, Forks Forum Special Collections, NA726 Special Collections, NA1255 Jay Powell and Vickie Jensen, book published by University of Washington Press, 1976

1905 Quileute totem pole, La Push Edmond S. Meany, 1905, University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, NA1256