Yaquina

The Yaquina lived in villages along the river and bay that bear their name on the central Oregon coast. Their speech was a dialect of the Alsea language, also spoken by neighbours to the south. The bay and its tidal waters supplied fish, including flounder, while a village farther up the bay was associated with salmon fishing. Forests furnished wood for houses, canoes and fishing equipment; waterways joined the communities of the coast to the valleys inland.