"[3] Lewis and Clark reported "that about 300 Cathlamet occupied nine plank houses on the south side of the Columbia River",[4] and lived between Tongue Point and Puget Island in Clatsop County, Oregon.
"[3] Clark wrote: November 11th Monday 1805About 12 o'clock 5 Indians came down in a canoe, the wind very high from the S.W., with most tremendous waves breaking with great violence against the shores.
One of those men had on a sailor's jacket and pantaloons and made signs that he got those clothes from the white people who lived below the point &c. Those people left us and crossed the river (which is about 5 miles wide at this place) through the highest waves I ever saw a small vessels ride.
[4] On August 9, 1851, the Kathlamet ceded lands to the United States in exchange for money, clothing, and other items.
[1] Their villages were: Queen Sally's Spring in Cathlamet, Washington, is named after the former head of the Kathlamet people, who told stories about her memories of Lewis and Clark as a young girl.