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65:, which was lost in 1693 while sailing from the Philippines to Mexico. Warren Vaughn, an early white settler in Tillamook, knew Kilchis and believed he was a descendant of one of the survivors of the wreck, and said that Kilchis himself claimed such ancestry. Kilchis was described by many people as looking strikingly different from other native Tillamook people. Many assumed he was partially of sub-Saharan African ancestry, having curly hair and beard, and other features settlers saw as African. There are various stories about his supposed ancestry. Warren Vaughn claimed that Kilchis's father was a "full-blooded negro" who had been a blacksmith on the "wax-ship" and had been taken in into the Tillamook tribe. Kilchis's mother was, according to Vaughn, a Nehalem Tillamook woman who had married the blacksmith survivor. Vaughn did not know when the "wax-ship" wrecked. If it was the Spanish galleon of 1693 then Kilchis's father could not have been one of the survivors, but a more distant ancestor could have been. 110:, was able to make new treaties, which were ratified, to acquire large amounts of native land, including the Tillamook land. During the many inter-related Indian wars of the 1850s, such as the 106:, tried to make land cession treaties with the Tillamook under Kilchis, and the Nehalem people, and many others. The treaty with Kilchis of August 7, 1851, went unratified. Dart's successor, 92:. During the 1850s white settlers literally crowded the Tillamooks off their beaches and many conflicts occurred. Chief Kilchis and Chief Illga met with the settlers 519: 529: 524: 42:(also known as Tse-tse-no or Illga Adams) were the last Tillamook leaders to preside uncontested in the Tillamook's homeland around Tillamook Bay. 103: 122:
to join the fight, but the Tillamook obeyed Kilchis's order that they remain peaceful and demonstrate their peaceful intentions to the whites.
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and Warren Vaughn to negotiate peace, but conflict continued intermittently.
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Kilchis may have been a descendant of one of the survivors of a Spanish
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American settlers began encroaching on Tillamook land after the 1850
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Index

Tillamook
Tillmook
Tillamook Bay
Oregon
Chief Illga
Manila Galleon
Neahkahnie Mountain
Nehalem River
beeswax wreck
Don Berry
Donation Land Claim Act
homesteading
Oregon Territory
Elbridge Trask
Anson Dart
Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs
Joel Palmer
Yakima War
Rogue River Wars
Klickitat people
Coast Indian Reservation
Siletz Reservation
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Bright, William
Native American Placenames of the United States
ISBN
978-0-8061-3598-4
"Hobsonville Indian Community"
Oregon Historical Society
"Back Issues: Summer 2018 "Oregon's Manila Galleon""

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