Siuslaw is one of the tribes comprising the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and a portion of the off-reservation population forms part of the three
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians located on the southwest
Oregon Pacific coast
Pacific coast may be used to reference any coastline that borders the Pacific Ocean.
Geography Americas
Countries on the western side of the Americas have a Pacific coast as their western or southwestern border, except for Panama, where the Pac ...
in the
United States. Lower
Umpqua (or Kuitsh) and Siuslaw are closely related peoples, both of whom spoke dialects of Siuslaw language (Kuitsh dialect and Siuslaw dialect), a
Coast Oregon Penutian language. The
Siuslaw language
Siuslaw was the language of the Siuslaw people and Lower Umpqua ( Kuitsh) people of Oregon. It is also known as ''Lower Umpqua''. The Siuslaw language had two dialects: Siuslaw proper (Šaayušƛa) and Lower Umpqua (Quuiič).
Classification
Si ...
is
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
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Footnotes
Further reading
* Leo J. Frachtenberg, "Siuslaw," in Franz Boas (ed.)
''Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part 2.''Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922; pp. 431–630.
External links
www.ctsi.nsn.us
- Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians homepage
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw homepage
Native American tribes in Oregon
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
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