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The Hoh or Chalá·at ("Those-Who-Live-on-the-Hoh River" or "People of the Hoh River") are a Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. The tribe lives near the Pacific Coast of Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. The Hoh moved onto the Hoh Indian Reservation at the mouth of the Hoh River, on the Pacific Coast of Jefferson County, after the signing of the Quinault Treaty on July 1, 1855. The reservation has a land area of and a 2000 census resident population of 102 persons, 81 of whom were Native Americans. It lies about halfway between its nearest outside communities of Forks, to its north, and Queets (on the Quinault Indian Reservation), to its south. The river is central to their culture. The main resources they used included cedar trees, salmon, and the nearby vegetation. They also traded and bartered with other tribes closer to Eastern Washington, near the Plateaus and Great Plains.
Name
The name of the Hoh River, and the Hoh who were named after it, is derived from the Quinault language name for the river, húxʷ.
The Hoh call themselves Chalá·at or Chalat' (′People of the southern river, i.e. Hoh River′) after their name for the Hoh River Cha’lak’at’sit or Chalak'ac'it, which means the "southern river". The tribe's population declined significantly following contact with European American explorers in the 19th century, which brought a smallpox epidemic. A census conducted in 1901 counted 64 total members.
Hoh Indian Reservation
The Hoh Indian Reservation was established on September 11, 1893, by an executive order signed by President Grover Cleveland. The Hoh had originally been assigned to the Quinault Indian Reservation per the terms of the 1855 Quinault Treaty, which was not signed with their knowledge.