Kitsap or Ktsap was a war chief of the Suquamish Tribe. The Suquamish are a Native American tribe of Washington State in the United States. One source says that he was the most powerful chief on Puget Sound from 1790 to 1845. Puget Sound (ˈpjuːʤᵻt is an arm of the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest Kitsap County, Washington and the Kitsap Peninsula are named for him. Kitsap County is a County located in the US state of Washington, named after Chief Kitsap of the Suquamish tribe The Kitsap Peninsula is an arm of land that is part of the larger Olympic Peninsula in Washington
Having been prominent before white settlement of Puget Sound began, oral history is the only basis for most of what can be said about Kitsap, and many reports offer conflicting information. He may have been one of the Indians who was welcomed aboard the HMS Discovery by Captain George Vancouver during his exploration of Puget Sound. Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Discovery, while ships of other branches have also used the name was a discovery vessel Captain George Vancouver Some sources indicate that it was Kitsap who had Old Man House, Puget Sound's largest longhouse, built on Agate Pass, though other sources debate this. Old Man House was the largest "bighouse" (a type of Longhouse) in what is now the U Agate Pass or Agate Passage is a high-current tidal Strait in Puget Sound connecting Port Madison and Port Orchard.
Aside from being one of the best-known war chiefs of the Suquamish, at one point Kitsap was acknowledged as the head of the largest intertribal coalition which the Puget Sound had ever seen. Around 1825, The Puget Sound Indians, not normally organized above the level of individual bands, formed a confederation under Kitsap to strike against the Cowichan Tribes of southeast Vancouver Island, who often raided the Puget Sound. The Cowichan Tribes First Nations government and reserve located in and around the Cowichan Valley and Duncan British Columbia, it is the the Vancouver Island is a large Island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British However, Kitsap's flotilla was no match for the larger canoes of the Cowichans; after suffering heavy losses in the sea battle, the Puget Sound Indians were forced to retreat. Kitsap was one of the few survivors of this ill-fated expedition.
Sources suggest that Kitsap was the brother of Schweabe, the father of Chief Seattle. Chief Seattle or Sealth ( Lushootseed: Ts’ial-la-kum; c 1786 – June 7, 1866) also spelled Seathle, Seathl
Another Kitsap, a leader of the Muckleshoot tribe, was prominent in the Indian War of 1855-1856. The Muckleshoot are a Native American tribe descended from the Coast Salish people of the Pacific Northwest The Yakima War was a conflict between the United States and the Yakama people a Sahaptian -speaking people on the Northwest Plateau then Washington Like his comrade in arms, Chief Leschi, Kitsap was arrested for the part he played in the hostilities, but he was acquitted. Chief Leschi ( 1808 - February 19, 1858) was chief of the Nisqually Native American tribe Known to boast of his healing skills and his supposed invincibility (he claimed that no man could kill him), Kitsap of the Muckleshoot was killed shortly after returning to his tribe in 1860. Three of his tribesmen had fallen ill, and died after he administered them a red liquid as medicine; their relations killed Kitsap to avenge what they saw as willful murder.
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