To much of the world, the Quileute are known as the Clan of Shape-Shifting Werewolves in the popular book and movie series, "Twilight." We have to protect the tribe before it's too late.It's brought us a lot of national attention. And, you know, there's still people that are just so amazed when they come out here to visit us. Whoa, they're really here, you know, there are really Quileute people.Tourists may come here to see the imaginary werewolves, but what they find is the real story of a people who have endured.On the beac5hes of La Push, Wash., Ann Penn Charles―or Ms. Ann, as she's known―is passing on the tradition of fishing for smelts to her grandchildren.She tells stories and sings songs in the ancient Quileute language of a tribe that has relied on these waters for centuries.As fishermen and whalers, the Quileute have always considered themselves stewards of the coast, says Chris Morganroth, a Quileute elder.It's been a great quality of life since the time of our beginning here, that all the things that were made available to us by the Creator, all the salmon, the cedar trees, just a wide variety of different life that's here on the coast.Hundreds of years ago, the tribe adapted to shifts in the weather by migrating within their expansive territory that stretched thousands of miles across the Olympic Peninsula. But now their village is just one square mile.
