Chemakum people

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The Chemakum (also spelled Chimakum and Chimacum) people (known to themselves as Aqokúlo and historically called the Port Townsend Indians) were a Native American tribe who lived in the northeastern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay until their virtual extinction in 1902. Their primary settlements were on Port Townsend Bay, on the Quimper Peninsula, and Port Ludlow Bay to the south. Today, Chemakum people are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes: the Skokomish, Jamestown S'Klallam, and Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribes, although lineage is not traceable at present.

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