X Klamath, Keane, App.  Stanford’s Comp. (Cent. and So.  Am.), 475, 1878
  (Eurocs belong here).

Derivation:  Weitspek is the name of a tribe or village of the family situated on Klamath River.  The etymology is unknown.

Gibbs was the first to employ this name, which he did in 1853, as above cited.  He states that it is “the name of the principal band on the Klamath, at the junction of the Trinity,” adding that “this language prevails from a few miles above that point to the coast, but does not extend far from the river on either side.”  It would thus seem clear that in this case, as in several others, he selected the name of a band to apply to the language spoken by it.  The language thus defined has been accepted as distinct by later authorities except Latham, who included as dialects under the Weitspek language, the locality of which he gives as the junction of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers, the Weyot and Wishosk, both of which are now classed under the Wishoskan family.

By the Karok these tribes are called Yurok, “down” or “below,” by which name the family has recently been known.

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.

For our knowledge of the range of the tribes of this family we are chiefly indebted to Stephen Powers.[109] The tribes occupy the lower Klamath River, Oregon, from the mouth of the Trinity down.  Upon the coast, Weitspekan territory extends from Gold Bluff to about 6 miles above the mouth of the Klamath.  The Chillula are an offshoot of the Weitspek, living to the south of them, along Redwood Creek to a point about 20 miles inland, and from Gold Bluff to a point about midway between Little and Mad Rivers.

    [Footnote 109:  Cont.  N.A.  Eth., 1877, vol. 3, p. 44.]

PRINCIPAL TRIBES.

  Chillula, Redwood Creek. 
  Mita, Klamath River. 
  Pekwan, Klamath River. 
  Rikwa, Regua, fishing village at outlet of Klamath River. 
  Sugon, Shragoin, Klamath River. 
  Weitspek, Klamath River (above Big Bend).

WISHOSKAN FAMILY.

  > Wish-osk, Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind.  Tribes, III, 422, 1853 (given
  as the name of a dialect on Mad River and Humboldt Bay).

= Wish-osk, Powell in Cont.  N.A.  Eth., III, 478, 1877 (vocabularies of Wish-osk, Wi-yot, and Ko-wilth).  Gatschet in Mag.  Am.  Hist., 162, 1877 (indicates area occupied by family).  Gatschet in Beach, Ind.  Misc., 437, 1877.

  > Wee-yot, Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind.  Tribes, III, 422, 1853 (given as
  the name of a dialect on Eel River and Humboldt Bay).

  X Weitspek, Latham in Trans.  Philolog.  Soc.  Lond., 77, 1856 (includes
  Weyot and Wishosk).  Latham, Opuscula, 343, 1860.

  < Klamath, Keane, App.  Stanford’s Comp. (Cent. and So.  Am.), 475, 1878
  (cited as including Patawats, Weeyots, Wishosks).