Chilula
Chilula were an Athapaskan tribe who inhabited the area on or near lower Redwood Creek, in Northern California, some 500 to 600 years before contact with Europeans. Chilula have since been incorporated into Hupa tribe and live mainly on the Hoopa Reservation.The tribes originally had 18 villages: Howunakut, Noleding, Tlochime, Kingkyolai, Kingyukyomunga, Yisining'aikut, Tsinsilading, Tondinunding, Yinukanomitseding, Hontetlme, Tlocheke, Hlichuhwinauhwding, Kailuhwtahding, Kailuhwchengetlding, Sikingchwungmitahding, Kinahontahding, Misme, and Kahustahding.Legacy
A 205' Cherokee-class US Navy oceangoing tugboat was christened the in 1945, and recommissioned in 1958 as the United States Coast Guard Cutter Chilula, serving until 1991.
