Klallam people

The title of this story, Clue to Gorilla Men Found May Be Lost Race of Giants, July 16, 1924.

The Siotic, Siotco, and Other Spelling Variations Klallam Indians tell of eight-foot siatiks who killed game by hypnotism, existence kept secret by other tribes.

Hokeway in Washington.

Mountain devils discovered at Mount St. Helens near Kelso are none other than the Siatic tribe, said George Totski, Klallam tribe editor of The Real American, an Indian National Weekly publication, in an interview here today.

Siatic is a Klallam pronunciation.

All other tribes pronounce it Siat-ko.

the indians of the northwest have kept the existence of the ciatics a secret partly because they know no white man would believe them and the indian known for his honesty and truthfulness does not like to be called a liar and partly because the northwestern indian is ashamed of the ciatic tribe said the mountain devils or guerrillas who bombarded the prospector's shack on mount st helens in nineteen twenty four according to the description of the miners are none other than the ciatic tribe with whom every indian in the northwest is familiar said were thought to be extinct.

The Ciotics were last heard of by the Clallam Indians about 15 years ago, approximately 1899 to 1909, and it was believed by the present-day Indians that they had become extinct.

But the men stuck to their story, stating, "...we expected people would disbelieve us, but we ran into the beast, whatever it was, four times and left a perfectly good mind to get away from it." an expedition was thrown together to go investigate the scene.

Four days after the first article, on July 16, the Oregonian followed up with a feature written by Jorg Totski of the Klallam tribe explaining what the Native Americans in the area felt the prospectors had encountered.

The attackers were identified by Todtski as members of a tribe called the Sihatik or Siyatik, a group that Northwestern Native Americans were said to have been keeping quiet about for two reasons.

First, the existence of the Siyatik was a sort of tribal skeleton in the Northwestern Indians' closet, as the newspaper described it.