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“The Yaxaik Native People, Origins of the Yachats Name, and the Prison Camp Years” (Updated and revised 2023)

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Yachats Residents and Friends,

Available now is the revised, updated edition of the publication by Joanne Kittel and Suzanne Curtis:

“The Yaxaik Native People, Origins of the Yachats Name, and the Prison Camp Years”  First (Publication: 1996, First Revision 2010, Second Revision 2023)

The authors created this article with three primary purposes in mind:

  1. To explore the origins and history of the Yachats area Native People
  2. To rediscover where the names Yachats and Alsea may have come from.
  3. To document the horrors experienced by Native People at the Alsea Sub-agency.

You can find it on the View the Past page on the VtF website and it will be in hardcopy soon selling at cost at Yachats Books and More. (That is a promise to both tribes that has been kept more than 27 years that it will be available at cost.)

This is important reading for all people and essential for residents and visitors of the Yachats area.  The events of our past continue to vibrate in the present.  With knowledge there can be change.

(4/20/2023)