The Tolowa people or Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni’ are a Native American people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethno-linguistic group. Two rancherías (Smith River and Elk Valley) still reside in …

The name “Tolowa” is derived from Taa-laa-welh (Taa-laa-wa), a Yurok and Wiyot name from the Algonquian language for the capitol of Yan’-daa-k’vt. Their autonyms are dee-ni’ and xvsh, …

The Dee-ni' community began to write their oral tradition in earnest using the Tolowa version of the Uni-fon alphabet. The characters of the Uni-fon are unique and were written down by hand.

The Tolowa language (also called Chetco-Tolowa, or Siletz Dee-ni) is a member of the Pacific Coast subgroup of the Athabaskan language family.

Read about the rich culture of Tolowa Dee-ni' people.

Tolowa Dee-ni' is an Athabaskan language spoken in northern California and southwestern Oregon in the USA by a few people.

Tolowa women wove baskets using materials such as slender hazel and willow sticks, black fern and bear grass. The method they used is called twining, in which the branches or strips of …

Information about the Tolowa tribe in Spanish. Tolowa links. Culture, history and genealogy of the Tolowa Indians.

Lhuk have been a symbol and a necessary component of the first peoples who called the Pacific Northwest home. For thousands of years, lhuk shaped the lives of the people Tolowa Dee-niˈ, …

Early 20th-century collection of Tolowa and other California Indian legends. Anthology of myths and traditional literature from the Tolowa and other Native California tribes. Index of Tolowa …