The Big Quilcene River is a river on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington .
5-651: The name "Quilcene" comes from the Twana word /qʷəʔlsíd/, referring to a tribal group and the name of an aboriginal Twana village and community on Quilcene Bay . The Big Quilcene River rises in the Buckhorn Wilderness near Marmot Pass , south of Buckhorn Mountain , and near Boulder Ridge . It flows generally east through the Olympic Mountains and the Olympic National Forest . After flowing south briefly
10-482: A mile to the north. This Jefferson County, Washington state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in the state of Washington is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Twana language The Twana ( tuwaduq ) language, also known as Skokomish , is a Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family, spoken by
15-610: The Twana , the Indigenous people of Hood Canal , in Washington . The name "Skokomish" is an Anglicization of the Twana word squqəʔbəš and means "river people" or "people of the river". It is believed by some elders within the Skokomish community (such as Bruce Subiyay Miller ) that the language branched off from Lushootseed (a neighboring related Coast Salish language) because of
20-494: The region-wide tradition of not speaking the name of someone who died for a year after their death. Substitute words were found in their place and often became normalizing in the community, generating differences from one community to the next. Subiyay speculated that this process increased the drift rate between languages and separated Twana firmly from Lushootseed . The last fluent speaker died in 1980. The Skokomish Indian Tribe released an online Twana dictionary in 2020, and
25-600: The river is joined by Tunnel Creek and again flows east. It cuts through the Quilcene Range of the Olympic Mountains in which it collects a number of tributaries, including Mile And A Half Creek. Near Rainbow Campground the river turns north and is paralleled by U.S. Route 101 . In its last few miles the river turns east and flows by the south side of Quilcene before emptying into Quilcene Bay, part of Hood Canal . The Little Quilcene River enters Quilcene Bay less than
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