Editing Forks, Washington (section)

===Indigenous settlement===

Forks was once inhabited by the [[Quileute]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe, before they ceded their territory.<ref name="HistoryLink">{{cite web |last=Van Pelt |first=Julie |date=December 10, 2007 |title=Forks — Thumbnail History |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/8397 |work=[[HistoryLink]] |access-date=October 20, 2018}}</ref> In 1889 a [[Quileute Indian Reservation|reservation]] was created near Forks; that same year the village was burnt down by settler Daniel Pullen. Forks is 12 miles from tribal burning areas that area tribes used to regenerate young ferns. The phrase "prairie upstream" from Quileute language was translated and became the name Forks Prairie.<ref name="HistoryLink"/>