Native American Tribe Series
Ozette
The Ozette were a southern branch of the Makah and belonged to the Nootka branch of the Wakashan linguistic family. The Ozette lived on the Ozette Lake and Ozette River in Clallam County. The Ozette Indians were a part of the Makah group who had come from the west coast of Vancouver Island and settled on the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula. Their population figures gradually diminished from about 1880 until 1937, when there was only one Ozette Indian remaining. He lived the last part of his life on the Makah Reservation.