The Quileute Tribe in Fiction
The highly fictionalized version of the tribe features prominently in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. In the books, some members of the Quileute tribe are capable of shapeshifting into wolves, and they are enemies of the vampires. Chief among Twilight's many Quileute characters are main character Jacob Black, his father Billy, and members of Jacob's werewolf pack. It features prominently in all four Twilight books.
In Susan Sharpe's 1991 book Spirit Quest, eleven-year-old Aaron Singer spends part of his summer vacation on the Quileute Indian Reservation in Washington, where he becomes friends with Robert, a Quileute boy. At the encouragement of his family, who no longer incorporate many of their traditions into daily life, Robert attends tribal school to learn Quileute language and culture. At Aaron's urging, the boys go together on their version of a "spirit quest," where Aaron finds and saves a trapped eagle. Though he admires and respects Robert's culture, Aaron wistfully realizes that he can never be a part of it the way Robert is. Aaron's initially romantic view is replaced by deeper understanding.
In John J. Nance's 2005 Saving Cascadia the tribe plays a minor role in the book, being the southern neighbors to the fictional Quaalatch Nation who owned Cascadia Island. Also the namesake of the Quileute Quiet Zone, a fictional area of the Cascadia Subduction Zone so named for the lack of tremors in the area, hinting to a great buildup of locked pressure, the future source of the 'Big One'.
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