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slight pressure applied in baby’s cradleboard) until about 1860. The Alsea signed the 1855 Coast Treaty, agreeing to share their homelands with other Tribes when the Siletz
Reservation was to be established, the treaty not being ratified by the U.S. Senate, the appropriations never arrived. The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, represented Tillamook, Yaquina, Alsea, Coquille, Tututni, Chetco aboriginal title compensation claims in the 1940s–50s. The lawsuit “Alsea Band of Tillamooks et al vs the United States”. The confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians won that case, and some compensation was received about 1959.
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Their origin story says that the
Yaquina, Alsea, Yachats, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw people are all one tribe, and speak the same language. Today however, the Yakonan language branch is divided into Alsean and Siuslawan. The Alsean people (Yaquina/Alsea/Yachats) all practiced forehead flattening (by
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name. Si ni'-te-li tunne, Naltunne name, meaning "flatheads." Tcha yáxo amim, Luckiamute
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Kaukhwan, on the north side of Alsea River at Beaver Creek.
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Kutauwa, on the north side of Alsea River at its mouth.
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238:Thlekushauk, on the south side of Alsea River.
205:Khlimkwaish, on the south side of Alsea River.
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160:KĂ»nis'tĂ»nne, Chastacosta name. Päifan amĂm,
442:vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1917), pp. 64–75.
232:Tachuwit, on the north side of Alsea River.
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364:2012-09-04
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725:Nez Perce
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