Many of Lucy Dick’s and Amelia Van Pelt’s (Chetco/Tututni) descendants continue to live in the Chetco region, and are members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

Some Chetco descendants are enrolled in other federally recognized tribes, Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, located in Humboldt County, California.

[5] The Chetco were hunter-gatherers with a diet based on hunting deer and elk, gathering acorns and mussels, and fishing.

The Chetco cooked on open fires or with simple pots, and were culturally very similar to the Tolowa tribe to the south, "who shared the same customs regulating social relationships and frequently intermarried".

[6] The tribe is thought to have had perhaps one thousand members at its peak,[3] but its numbers declined after European-American settlers came into contact with the Chetco in the 19th century.