Qualla: La Push, Washington https://qualla.com/la-push-washington en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/x/2/la-push-washington-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: La Push, Washington https://qualla.com/la-push-washington La Push, Washington: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-push-washington/ Photo credit Ron Clausen, CC0. The name probably comes from the French La Bouche -- 'the mouth' -- a legacy of shipwrecked French sailors who washed ashore centuries ago and lived with the Quileute people long enough to leave their language behind. La Push sits where the Quillayute River meets the Pacific Ocean on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and it holds the westernmost ZIP code in the contiguous United States: 98350. It is the de facto capital of the Quileute Indian Reservation, a one-mile-square homeland established by executive order in 1889. And it is a village in the process of moving itself to higher ground, building by building, because the ocean that has sustained its people for thousands of years is now threatening to swallow them.

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/x/2/la-push-washington-wp/c0x2-la-push-washington-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Push, Washington: Whalers, Seal Hunters, and Woolly Dogs https://qualla.com/la-push-washington/ Photo credit ThomasLendt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Quileute people have lived on this coast for millennia, building cedar canoes that ranged from two-person craft to ocean-going freight vessels capable of carrying three tons. They ranked second only to the Makah as whalers and first among all the tribes of the region as seal ...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/x/2/la-push-washington-wp/c0x2-la-push-washington-whalers-seal-hunters-and-woolly-dogs.mp3 0:06 2 full La Push, Washington: A One-Mile-Square Nation https://qualla.com/la-push-washington/ Photo credit James Pressley, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Quileute signed their first treaty with the United States in 1855, but the territory they called home was so remote that the government's intent to relocate them to a reservation at Taholah was never enforced. For decades, bureaucratic neglect served as a kind of inadvertent ...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/x/2/la-push-washington-wp/c0x2-la-push-washington-a-one-mile-square-nation.mp3 0:06 3 full La Push, Washington: Moving to Higher Ground https://qualla.com/la-push-washington/ Photo credit Ron Clausen, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2017, La Push began doing something most communities only talk about: physically relocating to escape the rising sea. The Move to Higher Ground initiative aims to rebuild the village's critical infrastructure on elevated terrain, out of reach of the tsunamis and flooding that ...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/x/2/la-push-washington-wp/c0x2-la-push-washington-moving-to-higher-ground.mp3 0:06 4 full La Push, Washington: Where the River Meets the Surf https://qualla.com/la-push-washington/ Photo credit Ggerdel - La Push Olympic Nat Park: Gustavo Gerdel, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two beaches frame La Push: Rialto Beach to the north of the river mouth and La Push Beach to the south. The climate is profoundly wet -- an oceanic system moderated by the Pacific, with mild winters for the latitude but enormous rainfall driven against the Olympic Mountain front....

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