Klallam

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Klallam (also Clallam, although this spelling is disliked by the Klallam community) refers to four distinct but otherwise related indigenous Native American/First Nations peoples from the Pacific Northwest of North America. Three Klallam bands live on the Olympic Peninsula in the far northwest corner (bordering the Strait of Juan de Fuca) of Washington state, and one is based at Becher Bay on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Klallam people near canoe	Klallam boys carrying clams on beach	chief Chits-a-man-han & wife	Coast Salish style canoe
Klallam men in western clothes on beach	Klallam pole for netting ducks

• Klallam (Lower Elwha) Native American subtribe
• S'Klallam (Jamestown) Native American subtribe
• S'Klallam (Port Gamble, aka Little Boston) Native American subtribe
• Becher Bay First Nation

[edit] See also

• S'Klallam (Jamestown)
• Klallam language
• Coast Salish

[edit] External links

• Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
• Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
• Elaine Grinnell, Klallam storyteller and basket & drum maker
• Washington Post: "Northwest Tribe Struggles to Revive Its Language"
• Klallam language
• Thomas Charles Sr.
• S'Klallam or Klallam (Olympic National Park)
• S'Klallam Tribe
• Tribes of the Olympics