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Tolowa, the Glossary

The Tolowa people or Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni’ are a Native American people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethno-linguistic group.^[1]

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California genocide
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

Achulet massacre

The Achulet Massacre refers to the 1854 massacre of an estimated 65-150 Tolowa Indians at the hands of European-American settlers. Tolowa and Achulet massacre are California genocide.

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Alfred Kroeber

Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.

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Algic languages

The Algic languages (also Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok or Algonquian–Ritwan) are an indigenous language family of North America.

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Athabaskan (also spelled Athabascan, Athapaskan or Athapascan, and also known as Dene) is a large family of Indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean).

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Big Lagoon Rancheria

The Big Lagoon Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Yurok and Tolowa Indians.

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Blue Lake Rancheria

The Blue Lake Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Wiyot, Yurok, and Hupa Indians located northwest of the city of Blue Lake in Humboldt County, California on approximately.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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The Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe with members who are descendants of Chetco, Hupa, Karuk, Tolowa, Wiyot, and Yurok people in Humboldt County, California.

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Chetco people

The Chetco (Chetco: chit-dee-ni, chit-dee-ne or Chit-dv-ne') are a tribe of Native Americans who originally lived along the lower Chetco River and Winchuck River in Curry County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Tolowa and Chetco people are Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, indigenous peoples of California and Native American tribes in Oregon.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.

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Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in the United States is a federally recognized confederation of more than 27 Native American tribes and bands who once inhabited an extensive homeland of more than 20 million acres from northern California to southwest Washington and between the summit of the Cascades and the Pacific Ocean. Tolowa and Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians are Native American tribes in Oregon.

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Crescent City, California

Crescent City is the only incorporated city in Del Norte County, California; it is also the county seat.

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Del Norte County, California

Del Norte County (Spanish for "Of The North") is a county located at the far northwest corner of the U.S. state of California, along the Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Oregon border.

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Elk Valley Rancheria

The Elk Valley Rancheria is a ranchería and federally recognized tribe of Tolowa and Yurok people.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Eunice Bommelyn

Eunice Xash-wee-tes-na Henry Bommelyn (February 6, 1927 – April 23, 2012) was an American Tolowa cultural advocate, Tolowa language proponent, and tribal historian.

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Gavin Newsom

Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman serving since 2019 as the 40th governor of California.

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Ghost Dance

The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) is a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems.

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Hupa

Hupa (Yurok language term: Huep'oola' / Huep'oolaa.

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Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.

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Indian Shaker Church

The Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded in 1881 by Squaxin shaman John Slocum and his wife Mary Slocum in Washington state.

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Infection

An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.

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Jedediah Smith

Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwest during the early 19th century.

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Karuk

The Karuk people are an indigenous people of California, and the Karuk Tribe is one of the largest tribes in California. Tolowa and Karuk are indigenous peoples of California and Native American tribes in Oregon.

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Karuk language

Karuk or Karok (Araráhih or Ararahih'uripih) is the traditional language of the Karuk people in the region surrounding the Klamath River, in Northwestern California.

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Kinship

In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.

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Klamath River

The Klamath River (Karuk: Ishkêesh, Klamath: Koke, Yurok: Hehlkeek 'We-Roy) flows through Oregon and northern California in the United States, emptying into the Pacific Ocean.

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Lake Earl

Lake Earl is a lagoon on the extreme northern California coast, just south of the Oregon border.

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List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States

This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States.

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Loren Bommelyn

Loren Me’-lash-ne Bommelyn (born 1956) is a tradition bearer for the Tolowa tribe.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Patrilineality

Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage.

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Polity

A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.

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Population of Native California

The population of Native California refers to the population of Indigenous peoples of California. Tolowa and population of Native California are indigenous peoples of California.

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Ranchería

The Spanish word ranchería, or rancherío, refers to a small, rural settlement.

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Rogue River Indians

Rogue River Indians are a conglomeration of many tribal groups in the Rogue River Valley area, belonging to three language families: Athabascan, Takelma, and Shastan. Tolowa and Rogue River Indians are Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and Native American tribes in Oregon.

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Rogue River Wars

The Rogue River Wars were an armed conflict in 1855–1856 between the U.S. Army, local militias and volunteers, and the Native American tribes commonly grouped under the designation of Rogue River Indians, in the Rogue River Valley area of what today is southern Oregon. Tolowa and Rogue River Wars are Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

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Salishan languages

The Salishan (also Salish) languages are a family of languages of the Pacific Northwest in North America (the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana).

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Shasta Costa

The Shasta Costa (also known as the Chasta Costa, Shastacosta, Chastacosta, Shastao-Skoton, Shista-Kkhwusta or Shistakwasta), are a Native American tribe, one of Lower Rogue River Athabascan tribes from southwestern Oregon, who originally lived on the Rogue River and its tributaries, or, more precisely, on the "Lower Illinois River and the Rogue River between present-day Agness and Foster Bar." They spoke Shasta Costa dialect of Tututni (also known as Lower Rogue River Athabaskan) language. Tolowa and Shasta Costa are Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and Native American tribes in Oregon.

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Sherburne F. Cook

Sherburne Friend Cook (1896-1974) was an American physiologist and demographist, who served as professor and chairman of the department of physiology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Siletz

The Siletz (pronounced SIGH-lets) were the southernmost of several divisions of the Tillamook people speaking a distinct dialect; the other dialect-divisions were: Salmon River on the Salmon River, Nestucca on Little Nestucca River, Nestucca River and Nestucca Bay, Tillamook Bay on the Tillamook Bay and the mouths of the Kilchis, Wilson, Trask and Tillamook rivers, and Nehalem on Nehalem River. Tolowa and Siletz are Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and Native American tribes in Oregon.

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Siletz Reservation

The Siletz Reservation is a 5.852 sq mi (15.157 km²) Indian reservation in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, owned by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz. Tolowa and Siletz Reservation are Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Smith River (California)

The Smith River (Tolowa: xaa-wvn’-taa-ghii~-li~’, nii~-li~’) flows from the Klamath Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in Del Norte County in extreme northwestern California, on the West Coast of the United States.

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Takelma

The Takelma (also Dagelma) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Rogue Valley of interior southwestern Oregon. Tolowa and Takelma are Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and Native American tribes in Oregon.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation

The Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, previously known as Smith River Rancheria, is a federally recognized tribe of Tolowa people in Del Norte County, California.

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Tolowa language

The Tolowa language (also called Chetco-Tolowa, or Siletz Dee-ni) is a member of the Pacific Coast subgroup of the Athabaskan language family.

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Tolowa traditional narratives

Tolowa traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Tolowa people of Smith River area of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.

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Tututni

The Tututni tribe is a historic Native American tribe, one of Lower Rogue River Athabascan tribes from southwestern Oregon who signed the 1855 Coast Treaty, and were removed to the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon. Tolowa and Tututni are Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and Native American tribes in Oregon.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Yontocket, California

Yontocket (Tolowa: Yan’-daa-k’vt) is an unincorporated community in Del Norte County, California located west-southwest of Smith River, at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m) alongside Yontocket Slough.

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Yontoket massacre

The Yontocket massacre or Burnt Ranch massacre was an 1853 massacre of Tolowa people at the village of Yontocket (Tolowa: yan'-daa-k'vt), northwestern California. Tolowa and Yontoket massacre are California genocide.

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Yurok

The Yurok (Karuk language: Yurúkvaarar / Yuru Kyara - "downriver Indian; i.e. Yurok Indian") are an Indigenous peoples of California from along the Klamath River and Pacific coast, whose homelands stretch from Trinidad in the south to Crescent City in the north.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolowa

Also known as Smith River Indians, Tolowa genocide, Tolowa people.

, Tututni, United States, Yontocket, California, Yontoket massacre, Yurok.

Tolowa, the Glossary

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See also

California genocide

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

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