The Little Quilcene River is a river on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington . It rises in Clallam County , near Mount Townsend of the Olympic Mountains .
4-643: 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 river flows generally east through the Olympic National Forest . After exiting the higher mountains and the national forest the Little Quilcene River flows east and southeast through rolling terrain. It enters Jefferson County and flows more directly south to Quilcene , where it empties into
8-610: 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
12-475: The northern end of Quilcene Bay, part of Hood Canal . The Big Quilcene River enters Quilcene Bay less than a mile to the south. 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
16-494: 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
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