1848–1946) was a Coquille Indian from the U.S. state of Oregon who was a cultural and linguistic consultant to at least six important anthropologists over the course of his long life.
He grew up and lived on the Siletz Reservation, serving for decades as a member of the tribal police force.
[1] In 1873, Coquelle Thompson attended a version of the Ghost Dance of 1870 held at Corvallis, Oregon, and later he attended a dance of the Warm House at Upper Farm, Siletz Reservation.
He soon became a convert to a version of the Ghost Dance known at Siletz as the Warm House Dance, and proselytized along the Oregon Coast as far south as Coos Bay.
[2] He was married three times and had eleven children, all of whom died before adulthood except two, who married and have descendants to the present day among the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.