Native Seattle (57 page)

Seattle (city): platted at Little Crossing-Over Place,
37
; naming of,
37
–
38
; complex geography and geology of,
38
,
93
; “village period” defined,
41
; perceptions of among early visitors,
40
,
42
; built by indigenous labor,
47
–
49
; attempts to remove Indians from,
51
–
53
,
54
,
62
,
63
; incorporation of,
54
; beginning of urban sprawl in 1870s,
75
–
78
; growth in 1880s,
80
–
86
; and Panic of 1893,
86
; environmental transformations of landscape,
93
–
95
; development of regional Indian hinterland,
107
–
13
,
116
,
117
; advertised with Indian imagery,
114
–
15
,
116
–
17
,
130
–
31
,
158
–
60
; and Second World War,
163
–
65
; and postwar urban renewal,
169
,
173
,
180
; rise of multicultural politics,
168
–
70
; ecotopian turn of,
187

Seattle Arts Commission,
173

Seattle Historical Society,
146

Seattle Indian Heritage High School,
173

Seattle Liberation Front,
170

Seattle, Mandy,
91

Seattle, Mary Sam,
91

Seattle Spirit,
144
,
197
; and racial conflict,
145
–
47
; and the Cold War,
184
–
85

Seeathl (Duwamish/Suquamish; also known as Seattle and Sealth),
42
–
43
,
51
,
54
,
58
,
201
; and city-founding process,
26
,
28
,
34
; reactions to naming of town after him,
37
–
38
; on the “Changers,”
80
; death of,
126
; grave of,
127
,
148
; synonymy with city,
128
–
29
; warplane named after,
164
; as environmentalist icon,
187
–
88
.
See also
Chief Seattle Day; Chief Seattle Speech

Seeayay (Puyallup),
35

Seetoowathl (Duwamish; also known as Old Indian George),
79
,
97
,
103
,
210
,
236

Seward Park,
168

Shelton, Gram Ruth Sehome (Tulalip),
131

Shilshoolabsh or Shilshole (people),
76
,
88
,
98
,
100
; relationship to the Duwamish,
23
; and raids by northern peoples,
107
–
8
,
182
–
83
,
221
,
222

Simmons, Michael T.,
51

Single resident occupancy (SRO) hotels,
155
,
156
,
175

Siwash (“Indian” in Chinook Jargon; also racist term),
34
,
49
,
157

Skagit (people),
153

Skhandoo (Chilkoot Tlingit shaman),
120

Skid Road (neighborhood),
14
,
167
,
190
; descriptions of,
165
; as “Indian territory,”
174
–
76
; discrimination in,
177
.
See also
Pioneer Square

S'Klallam (people),
105
,
118
,
157

Skokomish/Twana (people),
120

Smallpox (“Comes out all over”),
101
,
110
; and ecological imperialism,
24
–
25
; urban anxieties over,
60
–
63
.
See also
Epidemics (other than smallpox)

Smart, Lillian,
18

Smith, Henry A.,
227

Smith, Marian Wesley,
102
,
151

Smith's Cove,
63
,
97
,
153

Smith Tower,
103

Sneatlum, Amelia (Suquamish),
112
,
210

Snohomish (people),
81
,
148
,
150
,
157

Snoqualmie (people),
45
,
77
,
85

Snoqualmie Pass,
45

Solomon, Ben (Duwamish),
43

Somers, Joe,
76

South Park (neighborhood),
153

Space Needle,
186
,
195

Speidel, Bill,
177

Spencer, Ernest (Yakama),
157

Spirit Canoe (place),
100

“Squaw Men” (racist term for white men living with or married to Indian women),
61
.
See also
Class; Intermarriage/“miscegenation”

Standless, J. E. “Daddy.”
See
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls,
50
–
51
,
52
,
53

Stewart, Robert M. and Helen,
74

Stosach (Duwamish) and family,
70

Stoney (people),
153
–
54

Subsistence practices (indigenous): central to pioneer life in Seattle,
48
–
49
; destruction of by urban development,
89
,
97
,
99
–
100
; criminalization by conservation laws,
99
–
100
,
189
.
Also see
the atlas

Suquamish (people),
158
–
59
; indigenous geography of,
23
–
24
; as hosts of Chief Seattle Day,
126
,
148
–
49
; legal status in city,
190
,
196
,
198
,
200

Suquamish (Port Madison) Reservation,
86
,
90
,
126
,
127
,
148
–
49

Swan, John M.,
47
–
48

Swanton, John R.,
116

Swinomish (people),
156
–
57

Tafoya, Terry,
195

Taholah (Quinault leader),
120

Tecumseh, Sam (Duwamish/ Muckleshoot),
84
–
85
,
240

Tecumseh (Duwamish),
47

Temple, Richard (Suquamish),
158
–
59

Terry, Charles C.,
45
,
54

Terry, Leander,
28
–
29

Thomas, Cecilia,
72

Thomas, Jimmy (Tlingit),
155

Thompson, Earle (Yakama),
179

Thomson, Reginald H.,
95

Tideflats (place),
79
,
103

Tight Bluff (place),
21

Tilikums of Elttaes,
133
–
35
,
140
–
41
,
144

Tleebooleetsa (Hachooabsh; also known as Madeline),
88
–
89
,
91

Tlingit (peoples),
155
,
156
,
157
; Stikine,
107
; Hutsnuwu,
110
–
11
; Ganaxádi/ Tongass,
113
,
118
,
159
; Chilkoot,
120
; Hoonah,
120
,
152
–
53
; Taku,
120
; Chilkat,
120
,
129

Tollen family,
76

Tolmie, William,
26

Totem House Fish & Chips,
160

Totem poles,
115
,
116
,
134
,
158
,
159
,
169
.
See also
Chief-of-All-Women Pole

Transportation,
200
–
201

Treaty of Point Elliott,
50
–
51
,
89

Tsetseguis (Hachooabsh),
225

Tsimshian (people),
109
,
111
,
120
–
21
,
157

Tsootsalptud (Duwamish),
234

Tucked Away Inside (Shilshoolabsh community),
23
,
77
,
88
,
91
,
97
,
107
–
8

Tulalip (people),
131
,
198

Tulalip Reservation and Tribes,
51
,
86
,
119
,
120

Turner, Franklin (Choctaw) and Ellen,
153

Turner, Frederick Jackson,
147

Turner, J. Thomas,
48
,
139

Twin Tepees Lounge,
160

Uhlman, Wes,
177

Union Bay,
23
,
76
,
96

United Indians of All Tribes,
171
,
181
,
182
,
185
.
See also
Daybreak Star Cultural Center

United States v. Washington. See
Boldt, George

University of Washington,
88
,
127
,
170
,
184
,
209
,
211

Urban history: in opposition to Indian history,
11
–
12

Valley-Lightener, Marian,
160
–
61

Van Asselt, Henry, and family,
29
,
42

Vancouver, George,
22
,
24
,
227

Vendiola, Diane (Swinomish),
156
–
57
,
171

Victoria, British Columbia,
60
–
61

Vietnam War,
56

Wahalchoo, Jacob (Suquamish),
20
–
21
,
98
,
158
,
232
–
33

Warren, Pearl (Makah),
165
,
169
,
171

Waterman, Thomas Talbot,
92
,
97
,
98
,
209
–
11
,
213
–
14

Watson, Emmett,
202
,
203

Watt, Roberta Frye,
140
–
42

Webster, Lawrence (Suquamish),
158
–
59

Weed, Gideon,
62

West Point (place),
85
,
90
,
107
,
195
–
96

West Seattle: growth of,
83
–
84
,
99
,
100
,
101

West Seattle Business Association,
19

West Seattle Charlie (Duwamish),
83
,
86

West Seattle Land Improvement Company,
83

Whatcom, Betsy (Muckleshoot),
210

Whitebear, Bernie Reyes (Colville),
157
,
169
,
182

Whitney, Lizzie,
73

Whitworth, Mary, and family,
73

Whulshootseed (language),
24
,
25
,
28
,
68
,
131
; conventions of use in this book,
xvi
,
215
–
26
; use of, place names in Seattle,
14
,
26
,
37
,
92
–
93
,
102–
3
,
127
; use by settlers,
64
–
65
,
220
; at Potlatch festivals,
148
,
149
; place-naming practices in,
214
–
18
.
Also see
the atlas

Wilbur, Ollie (Muckleshoot),
79
,
103

Wilkes, Charles,
25
–
26
,
35

William (Duwamish leader),
53

Williams, Art (Duwamish/Puyallup/ Muckleshoot),
99
–
100
,
111

Williams, Bena (Muckleshoot),
243

Williams, Harriet Shelton (Snohomish),
148
,
150

Williams, Sam (Ditidaht),
116

Winthrop, Theodore,
220

Wirtz, Jacob and Mattie,
72

Woolene, Louise,
72

Woolley, Nellie (Haida) and John,
153

Wrobel, David,
141

Wynn, Florence “Dosie” Starr (Muckleshoot),
102
,
203
,
242

Yakama (people),
112
,
157
,
164
,
179
,
237

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop,
116
,
159

Yesler, Henry,
37
,
50
,
51
–
52
,
54
,
138
; and sawmill
14
,
47
,
53
,
81
; as Indian agent,
52

Yesler, Julia (Duwamish),
57

Young, Ralph (Hoonah Tlingit),
152
–
53

Youngblood, Minnie (Makah) and John,
154

Youngstown (neighborhood),
155

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