VOL. VII] REAGAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES 21 



THE STRAIT OF FUCA AND SOUND REGION. 



When the Strait of Fuca was first visited by white men, 

 the Clallams occupied its south shore from Port Discovery 

 to the mouth of the Hoko River just south and east of Neah 

 Bay. Their villages occupied all of the good landing places 

 throughout the entire region. These were named in the 

 Point No Point treaty of January 26, 1855, as follows: Kah- 

 tai, Squah-qaihtl, Teh-queen, Ste-tehtlum, Tsohku, Yennis, 

 Elh-wa, Pishtst, Hunnit, Klat-la-wash and Oke-ho. Also in 

 talking of their villages to the writer the Clallam head men 

 named them at the time of the discovery without any ref 

 erence to any written record and also located each as fol 

 lows : Skwa-quelth, on Discovery bay; Suche-queen, now 

 called Squim; T Stal-lum, home of the chief Chits-mah-han 

 or the Duke of York, on the shore between Squim and Dun- 

 geness; T Say-is-cot, at the present Dungeness; Ee-ins, just 

 east of Port Angeles; Cha-wheets-un, at Port Angeles; Port 

 Crescent; Elk-wha, at the mouth of the Elwha River near 

 Port Angeles; Pysht, at a town still bearing that name; 

 Ka-need, Clallam Bay; Kla-kla-wise, between Clallam Bay 

 and Hoko River; Hoko, at the mouth of that river. 



Also, when first visited, the Chemakum tribe held the 

 country about Port Townsend and the Skokomish, Twana 

 and other tribes occupied villages in the &quot;sound&quot; region 

 and about the head of Hood s Canal. 



The above building sites and similar landing places on the 

 adjacent islands have been the homes of the kaleidoscopic 

 moving aborigines for many generations. They seem to 

 have been the battle ground of races. The midden heaps 

 and other archaeological remains also show that several dif 

 ferent peoples have occupied each place in the revolving years. 

 These archaeological remains correspond somewhat to those 

 described in the Ozette-Neah Bay region. Also the middens 

 which correspond to the Very Old middens of that section 

 seem to be very similar and further indicate that the Quilla- 

 yutes dominated the country here at that time. The Old 

 archaeological remains seem also to indicate that the Clal 

 lams had not occupied the region so long as the Makahs have 

 the cape country. Middens on Whidby Island also seem to 



