The Ozette Prairies of Olympic National Park - Natural Resources ...
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Figure 17. Map of the wetlands accessed by the Ozette Village. 23
It is possible that the Ozettes visited all six wetlands to hunt and to gather foods, basketry materi- als, medicines, and cordage materials because they all contain culturally significant plants that would have been useful to the people (see Appendix 1). Manny’s Prairie was northeast of the old village; West Prairie was southeast (and one-quarter of a mile west of Ahlstrom’s Prairie). Ahlstrom’s and Roose’s Prairies were also southeast of the village, and about a half mile from the Ozette River (because of this proximity to the river, they were probably accessed both by trail and by canoeing up the river and then going overland). Sand Point Prairie is west of Ozette Lake and Allen’s Prairie is at the south end of Ozette Lake; it may have been shared with the Quileute (see Figure 17). It is feasible that Ozette families accessed the Ozette Prairies not only by land but also by the Ozette River coming up at various times of the year to fish, hunt, and gather plants. According to Larry Sears (pers. comm. 2007) Roose had a trail to the Ozette River and a fish camp, which consisted of “four poles and a metal roof” and it is probable that this camp was accessed by an Indian trail or Indians at least had some kind of trail to Roose’s Prairie from the river. According to Ruby El Hult (1956), “They [the Ozette] pushed their long dugout canoes up the Ozette River four miles inland to Lake Ozette to take blueback salmon, which they dried in quantity.” Years later when the Ozette Reservation was established “one corner of the reservation took in a bend of the Ozette River, so they might continue to take their staple sockeye salmon” (Hult 1956). The reservation also was drawn up to encompass the northern end of Roose’s Prairie, perhaps because of its valuable Figure 18. Bud and Vera Klock. Photographed by George McCormick which plant resources. Vera Klock’s grandmother appeared in the Forks Forum article “Klocks are grand pioneers for Fun Days”, July 10, 2000. was Johanna Erickson who married Anders Nylund and they took a homestead at the north end of Ozette Lake in 1895 and then moved to Royal (see Figure 18). “My mother [Inga Nylund Evans] used to tell how they [the Ozette] would come up the Ozette River in their canoes and they [my mother and her sisters] would stand on the banks and holler at them” (pers. comm. 2002). Inga Nylund Evans wrote a newspaper article (circa early 1940s Vera Klock pers. comm. 2009) recalling that: “The Indians used to paddle up the river past our place in their canoes, and into the lake. The Indians would camp along the lake shore, mostly at the south end” (Evans n.d.). In a 1981 newspaper article by Mary Petroff, Hulda Sullivan Nylund (Inga’s sister) also recalled that “the Ozette Indians, who were always friendly to the white man, travelled by canoe up the Ozette 24
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- Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents List of Figures .
- Page 5 and 6: Figure 35. 1895 Plat Map highlighti
- Page 7 and 8: Acknowledgments The conception for
- Page 9 and 10: many obscure references. Many other
- Page 11 and 12: Figure 1. View of Ahlstrom’s Prai
- Page 13 and 14: Until recently, we were limited by
- Page 15 and 16: zones between forest and prairie).
- Page 17 and 18: The drier east-facing slopes have c
- Page 19 and 20: e important nesting sites for some
- Page 21 and 22: to the sea to the north of Cape Ala
- Page 23 and 24: 1928, notes that “tuberculosis an
- Page 25 and 26: Table 1. Timeline for Major Events
- Page 27 and 28: a significant part of the Makah’s
- Page 29 and 30: oxes, spoons, and bowls. Mature con
- Page 31: Figure 16. T.T. Waterman map. #22 a
- Page 35 and 36: in the wet areas, and salal berries
- Page 37 and 38: Species Uses Plant Part Location Be
- Page 39 and 40: Species Uses Plant Part Location Ti
- Page 41 and 42: 32 were small, but they were in abu
- Page 43 and 44: I still gather them [the leaves] ev
- Page 45 and 46: The Makah harvested the leaves of c
- Page 47 and 48: Born on February 2, 1926, eighty-th
- Page 49 and 50: She arrived early enough on the Mak
- Page 51 and 52: Prairie was not surveyed (see Table
- Page 53 and 54: 44 Figure 35. 1895 Plat Map. Townsh
- Page 55 and 56: Figure 37. Bracken fern (Pteridium
- Page 57 and 58: 48 the [Ozette] prairies. They woul
- Page 59 and 60: Enhance productivity of above-groun
- Page 61 and 62: We do have some evidence that the O
- Page 63 and 64: happened “yearly or whenever it w
- Page 65 and 66: such as parent material, land form,
- Page 67 and 68: to advance onto the Ozette Prairies
- Page 69 and 70: near Ozette; their meat and oil are
- Page 71 and 72: support their existing flora or par
- Page 73 and 74: References Agee, J.K. 1993. Fire Ec
- Page 75 and 76: Croes, D.R. and E. Blinman. 1980. H
- Page 77 and 78: Howie, S.A., P.H. Whitfield, R.J. H
- Page 79 and 80: expanded by G. Peterson and G. Pete
- Page 81 and 82: Vanderhoof, M. 1960. Death of pione
Figure 17. Map <strong>of</strong> the wetlands accessed by the <strong>Ozette</strong> Village.<br />
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