The Quileute Tribe

The Quileute tribe are a Native American people currently numbering appoximately 750.
The Quileute people settles onto the Quileute Indian Reservation after signing the Treaty of Quinault River of 1855 with the United States of America. The reservation's main population center is the community of La Push, Washington.
In the Twilight saga series, fictional members of the Quileute tribe live in and around Forks, Washington. Many of them are shapy-shifters. Notable Quileutes include Jacob Black and his father Billy Black.
According to the legend, the spirit warriors were the first to shift their shape from humans into wolves. The tribe settles in La Push and and became efficient fishermen and ship builders. As time passed others wanted their land and moved against the Quileutes for it.
The last of the great Spirit Chiefs came to be. Taha Aki was a man of peace and was known for his wisdom. However there was one man named Utlapa who believed that they should use their magic to expand their control over the Hihns and that Makahs and build an empire. When the spirit warriors left their bodies, their minds were all connected with each other. Taha Aki did not like what Utlapa wanted and banned him from the tribe.
Taha Aki's descendants no longer turned to wolves when they reached manhood. Only when a cold one was near would they return. The cold ones always came in ones or twos so the pack stayed small with 3 wolves until a bigger coven came. The leader of the coven spoke to Ephraim Black as if he were a man and promised not to harm the Quileutes. His strange yellow eyes gave proof of this, and a treaty was offered to the tribe even though there was no need. Ephraim accepted and the coven's numbers forces a larger pack than before.
Billy Black heads the elder council of the tribe and his son, Jacob, is part of the wolf pack. The other elders, Harry Clearwater, Quil Ateara Senior and Sam Uley, who is the eldest wolf and Alpha of the pack. Jacob comes from Ephraim and he is supposed to be the true Alpha but he refuses it.