Chief Toke was a leader of the

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of Native Americans on the

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coast of

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. Of Chinook and

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descent, he lived with his wife Suis and extended family at

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, spending winters near present-day Bay Center and summers in the vicinity of present-day Tokeland, which is named for him. James G. Swan, a settler in the area from 1852 to 1855, described Toke as "a man of advanced years."Swan, James Gilchrist. The Northwest Coast, or Three Year's Residence in Washington Territory. New York, Harper, 1857; reprinted by University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1969, cited a

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