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The Quinault (/kwɪˈnɒlt/ or /kwɪˈnɔːlt/, kʷínayɬ) are a group of Native American peoples from western Washington in the United States. They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people and are enrolled in the federally recognized Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation.
The name "Quinault" is an anglicized (albeit French) version of kʷínayɬ /ˈkʷinajɬ/, the traditional name of a village at the mouth of the Quinault River, today called Taholah. The river, village, and people were given the anglicized name Quinault in 1787 by the maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley.[1] It is also possible that both names come from a French trapper from the Quinault family who visited the area.
- ^ Olympic Peninsula Intertribal Cultural Advisory Committee (2003). Jacilee Wray (ed.). Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8061-3552-6. Retrieved December 2, 2016.