Klallam Tribe

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Klallam Tribe

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Tribal Headquarters

Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
2851 Lower Elwha Road
Port Angeles, WA 98363
Phone: 360-452-8471
Website

History

Various spellings: Klallam, S'Klallam,

Homeland: Puget Sound, Washington, Vancouver Island and British Columbia

Brief Timeline

1790s: First contact with the Spanish and British

1790: Clallam buy land and found Jamestown

1828: Conflict with the Hudson Bay Company

1830s:Protestant missionaries

1850s: Conflicts with whites and other tribes

1855: Treaty, removal to Skokomish reservation

1874: Some of the tribe purchased land along the Dungeness River

Additional References to the History of the Tribe

Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Clallam tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

The Twana, Chemakum and Klallam Indians of Washington Territory FS Library book 970.1 Ee56t

Reservations

Skokomish Reservation

Records

The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:

• Allotment records
• Annuity rolls
• Census records
• Correspondence
• Health records
• Reports
• School census and records
• Vital records

Agency Records

Correspondence and Census

Tribe	Agency	Location of Original records	Pre-1880 Correspondence M 234 RG 75 Rolls Roll Number	FS Library Film Number	Post-1885 Census M595 RG 75 Rolls Roll Number	FS Library Film Number
Clallam	Puyallup Agency, 1885-1920	Seattle	-	-	93, 407-09, 584-	581401-403

Websites

• Constitution and By-Laws of the Port Gamble Indian Community Washington
• Klallam Nation Wikipedia

For Further Reading

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