Klallam Tribe

Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and other agency records.



Various spellings: Klallam, S'Klallam,

Homeland: Puget Sound, Washington, Vancouver Island and British Columbia

Brief Timeline
1790s: First contact with the Spanish and British

1790: Clallam buy land and found Jamestown

1828: Conflict with the Hudson Bay Company

1830's:Protestant missionaries

1850's: Conflicts with whites and other tribes

1855: Treaty, removal to Skokomish reservation

1874: Some of the tribe purchased land along the Dungeness River

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Clallam tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

The Twana, Chemakum and Klallam Indians of Washington Territory FHL book 970.1 Ee56t

Reservations
Skokomish Reservation

Records
The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:


 * Allotment records
 * Annuity rolls
 * Census records
 * Correspondence
 * Health records
 * Reports
 * School census and records
 * Vital records

Agency Records
Correspondence and Census

Web Sites

 * Constitution and By-Laws of the Port Gamble Indian Community Washington
 * Klallam Nation Wikipedia

For Further Reading
For background information to help find American Indian ancestors see For Further Reading.