The Yaquina people were a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...

of Native Americans. There were 19 Yaquina in 1910. Their language was one of the

Yakonan Alsea or Alsean (also Yakonan) was two closely related speech varieties spoken along the central Oregon coast until the early 1950s. They are sometimes taken to be different languages, but it is difficult to be sure given the poor state of attest ...

languages. The Yaquina lived around the

Yaquina River The Yaquina River ( ) is a stream, long, on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of Oregon. It drains an area of the Central Oregon Coast Range west of the Willamette Valley near Newport. It rises in the mountains west of Corvallis along the c ...

and

Yaquina Bay Yaquina Bay ( ) is a coastal estuarine community found in Newport, Oregon, United States. Yaquina Bay is a semi-enclosed body of water, approximately 8 km² (3.2 mi²) in area, with free connection to the Pacific Ocean, but also diluted ...

, both of which have been named after it. The town of

Yaquina, Oregon Yaquina ( ), at one time a thriving port called Yaquina City, is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is near the mouth of the Yaquina River, on the east sid ...

, has also been named after the Indians.

Villages

North of Yaquina River

Yaquina villages north of the Yaquina River were: * Holukhik * Hunkkhwitik * Iwai * Khaishuk * Khilukh * Kunnupiyu * Kwulaishauik * Kyaukuhu * Kyuwatkal * Mipshuntik * Mittsulstik * Shash * Thlalkhaiuntik * Thlekakhaik * Tkhakiyu * Tshkitshiauk * Tthilkitik * Ukhwaiksh * Yahal * Yikkhaich

South side of Yaquina River

Yaquina villages south of the Yaquina River were: * Atshuk * Chulithltiyu * Hakkyaiwal * Hathletukhish * Hitshinsuwit * Hiwaitthe * Kaku * Khaiyukkhai * Khitalaitthe * Kholkh * Khulhanshtauk * Kilauutuksh * Kumsukwum * Kutshuwitthe * Kwaitshi * Kwilaishauk * Kwulchichicheshk * Kwullaish * Kwullakhtauik * Kwutichuntthe * Mulshintik * Naaish * Paiinkhwutthu * Pikiiltthe * Pkhulluwaaitthe * Pkuuniukhtauk * Puuntthiwaun * Shilkhotshi * Shupauk * Thlekwiyauik * Thlelkhus * Thlinaitshtik * Thlukwiutshthu * Tkulmashaauk * Tuhaushuwitthe * Tulshk

References

Native American tribes in Oregon Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Kalapuya Newport, Oregon Alsean languages {{Oregon-stub