- Duwamish Tribe
We are the People of the Inside, dxʷdəwʔabš, the Duwamish Tribe We are the first people of Seattle, the city named for our Chief (Si'ahl) Seattle, and Greater King County
- Duwamish people - Wikipedia
The Duwamish (Lushootseed: dxʷdəwʔabš, [4] [dxʷdəwʔɑbʃ]) are a Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people in western Washington, and the Indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle Prior to colonization, the center of Duwamish society was around the Black and Duwamish rivers in Washington
- The Real Duwamish
After 1855, the Duwamish people were forced to leave their ancestral villages around Seattle and move to designated reservations to preserve their heritage and culture Today, the vast majority of Duwamish descendants are members of the Muckleshoot, Puyallup, Tulalip, Suquamish, and Lummi Tribes
- Duwamish - Encyclopedia. com
The name Duwamish (pronounced dew-AH-mish) means “inside people,” referring to Native peoples living inside “the bay,” or the Puget Sound (PYEW-jit), an arm of the Pacific Ocean that stretches up through western Washington state
- Duwamish Fact Sheet
Descendants of those earliest settlers became members of the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Suquamish, Swinomish, Lummi, and Tulalip Tribes, all of which still exist today The Duwamish River has been, and continues to be, an important source of salmon and shellfish for indigenous people
- History of the Duwamish People — Duwamish Tribe
We are the host tribe for Seattle, our area’s only indigenous tribe Many of our enrolled members still live on Duwamish aboriginal territory, which includes Seattle, Burien, Tukwila, Renton, and Redmond Our tribe is governed by a 1925 constitution and its bylaws
- History of the Duwamish people - Wikipedia
Duwamish oral history recorded the recession of the glaciers in a story called the "Epic of the Winds " The epic describes how North Wind covered the land in ice by building a dam across the Duwamish River North Wind loved Mountain Beaver, and he killed her husband, South Wind
- Culture Today — Duwamish Tribe
"Duwamish" is the Anglo-Europeanized word which meant "people of the inside", dxʷdəwʔabš This was referencing where the people lived, in the interior on the Duwamish, Black and Cedar rivers
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