Quileute Nation Protocol

2012 Canoe Journey at Squaxin Island Tribe

[@jeaninecalderon121]

I get emotional watching this when I see the elders who have passed on. But I know they are smiling up above and so proud of each of the tribes. ❤

[@sonnyfrancis58]

Love you brother Ray......Creator is blessed to have you with him..... we are blessed to have had you too.... O C M... Hy'Shi Qua....

[@sisterdandilion1334]

I miss you Ray❤️ I watch this so I can see you❤️ your missed!

[@jjbobby9718]

If u can erase the wolf dance please

[@RealTakerslady]

They’re beautiful people

[@janettemeanirene9413]

I miss ray

[@cwickwitted]

I just found out I'm a descendant of Quileute people. I'd like to take the initiative to learn of my limited tangible history. People have always commented on my looks and said they can't figure out what my ethnicity is, I look into my family going back the only 4 generations I can... and it seems Francis Xavier Matthieu (x3 Grandfather) was a well-known French Fur Trader who married a Quileute woman. Are there any resources you can offer me to study the language? I'd like to learn the songs, I'd like to see if there is any history you have documented that can teach me the identity of the woman, her family... or significance to your people. On a side note, I've always been extremely attached to the idea of Whales, couldn't ever explain it other than me being a mellow and wise person... I'd always observe while others jumped in. Thought it was interesting when the so-called 'spirit animal' the Creator transformed us to accommodate Quileute land was a Wolf... was kind of bummed to find out it wasn't a whale, then... after I do more study, I find out we were apparently greatly skilled whale hunters. Please... [e-mail], contact me... I know my Grandfather's name has a lot of respect in the Pacific Northwest, and my grandfather has amazing headdresses I'd like to have someone look at. But anything language, song, cultural related... I'd like to know where I come from, even if only one of many pieces that make up my genetic history.

[@bspenn2212]

Interesting Chad back on your subject on your interest in whales the quileute people were once whales we transformed into a wolf than to human

[@rickhorejsi5227]

Who was your grandfather

[@cwickwitted]

@@rickhorejsi5227 My Great Great Great Grandfather is Francis Xavier Matthieu, a french furtrader that came across Canada and down the coast where he, as many did, found an indian young-woman whom became my genetic bridge to the Quileute.

[@cwickwitted]

@@rickhorejsi5227 Oh Pardon me, I have a limited relationship with my current Grandfather, Gerald Matthieu.. but with enough effort could at the very least have pictures produced of what he has related to the tribe that have been passed down.

[@samuelpenn4624]

Yours is the opposite of my family. Our grandfather who was Stanley Gray had several children w an adopted white lady who we were told belonged to the Iron Man of thr Hoh. He was a white man but not Scandinavian which is what we found through DNA. To this day, I still don't know where Gramma Susie came from. Oh, I need to mention here that the Iron Man of the Hoh and his wife were both of German descent.

[@ringscircles142]

[@riskinhos]

why are they speaking english?!

[@jeaninecalderon121]

The non natives came into our village and the Quileute people started learning English. My mothers grandmother only spoke Quileute only like our ancestors did. Then the Quileute started speaking English. The language is still taught in our tribal school and very few elders don’t speak much anymore. The students learn by hearing audio tapes and by books and by a linguist who has kept our language alive. We have a new Quileute Language app online.

[@jjbobby9718]

In all respect please delete the wolf and elk dance it's not supposed to be recorded or pictures taken. We were taught by our elders that is not our way