Hoh Indian Tribe of the Hoh Indian Reservation

Hoh is a Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. The tribe lives on the Pacific Coast of Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. The Hoh moved onto the Hoh Indian Reservation, 47°44′31″N 124°25′17″W / 47.74194°N 124.42139°W / 47.74194; -124.42139 at the mouth of the Hoh River, on the Pacific Coast of Jefferson County, after the signing of the Quinault Treaty on July 1, 1855. The reservation has a land area of 1.929 square kilometres (477 acres) and a 2000 census resident population of 102 persons, 81 of whom were Native Americans. It lies about half-way between its nearest outside communities of Forks, to its north, and Queets (on the Quinault Indian Reservation), to its south.

The original Hoh language was actually the Quinault language. Though Hoh are considered to be a band of the Quileute tribe, they are originally related to the Quinault tribe. After intermarriage with the Quileute tribe, the Hoh tribe became a bilingual tribe, speaking both Quileute and Quinault, until the Quileute language was favored. The lifestyle of the Hoh, like many Northwest Coast tribes, involved the fishing of salmon.

See also

• Hoh Rain Forest
• Hoh River
• Makah

References

• Hoh Reservation, Washington United States Census Bureau

External links

• Tribal website
• Hoh tribe profile at the website of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum A web-based museum of the history and culture of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula communities