the first people of Seattle (a city named after the Suquamish-Duwamish Chief Sealth). Unlike other tribes that signed treaties with the white settlers of Puget Sound, the denial means that ...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Scott Sufficool ... Stevens' Treaties." The Duwamish -- one of two local tribes with ties to Chief Sealth, the namesake of Washington's largest city -- is used ...

a shot at regaining treaty fishing rights and the possibility of opening a casino in the middle of the city named for its chief. More than 150 years of struggle have prepared the Duwamish for this ...

The Duwamish tribe and its leader, Chief Seattle, were the principal signers of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott that handed over 54,000 acres of land, along with many other tribes in the region.

SEATTLE (CN) - Though Seattle is named for Duwamish chief Si'alth, the Department of the Interior has denied recognition to the tribe after decades of litigation. The Department of Interior ruled last ...

The Duwamish leader and reluctant city namesake Chief Seattle passed away in 1866, but his image remains a constant presence more than 150 years later thanks to a single photograph he sat for not ...

In 1855, Chief Seattle signed the Treaty of Point Elliott on behalf of his mother’s and father’s tribes, the historic Duwamish Tribe and the Suquamish Tribe. The Point Elliott treaty tribes ...