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Estimated to have 2200 people at the beginning of the 18th century, the Tillamook lost population in the 19th century to infectious disease and murder by European Americans. In 1849 they were estimated to have 200 members.
The city is named for the Tillamook people, a Native American tribe speaking a Salishan language who lived in this area until the early 19th century. Anthropologist Franz Boas identifies the Tillamook Native Americans as the southernmost branch of the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
The population of Tillamook has held steady since 1960, at around five thousand people, and the city serves a large rural area as the Gateway to the Oregon Coast.
16. Jan. 2020 · The Tillamook people belong to the Salish language family, each band having its own dialect. Historically, they lived along the coastal strip from Tillamook Head south to Cape Foulweather with villages located on the bays and near the mouths of five major rivers emptying into Tillamook Bay.
The Tillamook are a Native American tribe from coastal Oregon of the Salish linguistic group. The name "Tillamook" is a Chinook language term meaning "people of [the village] Nekelim (or Nehalem)", sometimes it is given as a Coast Salish term, meaning "Land of Many Waters".
The story of Tillamook County began on August 14, 1788 when Captain Robert Gray, an American sailing the sloop “Lady Washington,” anchored in Tillamook Bay thinking he had found the “great river of the West.” This was the first landing on the Oregon coast.
Tillamook ist eine Kleinstadt und County Seat des Tillamook County im US-Bundesstaat Oregon mit 5.204 Einwohnern. Die Stadt liegt am südöstlichen Ende der Bucht Tillamook Bay am Pazifischen Ozean. Sie wurde nach dem indigenen Volk der Tillamook, einem Stamm der Salish, benannt.
