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Portrait of Chief Leschi

Chief Leschi (1808 - February 19, 1858) was chief of the Nisqually Native American tribe. Year 1808 ( MDCCCVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common For other uses see Nisqually. Nisqually is a Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States He was hanged for murder in 1858, but exonerated in 2004. Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death Murder is the unlawful killing of another human person with Malice aforethought, as defined in Common Law countries

Leschi was born in 1808 near what is today Eatonville, Washington, to a Nisqually father and a Yakama mother. Eatonville is a town in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, or simply Yakama Nation (formerly Yakima) is a Native American group with nearly 10000 enrolled He was appointed chief by Isaac Stevens, first governor of Washington Territory, to represent the Nisqually and Puyallup tribes at the Medicine Creek Treaty council of December 26, 1854, which ceded to the United States all or part of present-day King, Pierce, Lewis, Grays Harbor, Mason, and Thurston Counties and stipulated that the Native Americans inhabiting the area move to reservations. Isaac Ingalls Stevens ( March 25, 1818 &ndash September 1, 1862) was the first Governor of Washington Territory, a The Washington Territory was a historic Organized territory of the United States that was formed in February 8, 1853 from the portion of the The Puyallup are a Native American tribe from western Washington state U The Treaty of Medicine Creek was an 1854 Treaty between the Washington Territory, the United States, and the Nisqually, Puyallup Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year The United States of America —commonly referred to as the King County is located in the US state of Washington. The population in the 2000 census was 1737034 and in 2006 was an estimated 1835300 Pierce County is the second most populous county in the US state of Washington. Lewis County is a County located in the US state of Washington. Grays Harbor County is a county of Washington State, in the United States of America. Mason County is a County located in the US state of Washington. Thurston County is a County located in the US state of Washington. An Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American Tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau Some maintain that Leschi either refused to sign (and had his "X" forged by another) or signed under protest. Forgery is the process of making adapting or imitating objects statistics or documents (see False document) with the intent to deceive. The historical record is unclear on this point. However, he did argue that the reservation designated for the Nisqually tribe was a rocky piece of high ground unsuited to growing food and cut off from access to the river that provided the mainstay of their livelihood, salmon.

The next year, Leschi traveled to the territorial capital at Olympia to protest the terms of the treaty, but was rebuffed. Olympia is the Capital of Washington and is the County seat of Thurston County. In October 1855, Acting Governor Mason ordered that Leschi and his brother Quiemuth be taken into "protective custody" and sent the militia after them, thereby initiating the Puget Sound War of 1855-1856. Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year The Puget Sound War was an armed conflict that took place in the Puget Sound area of the state of Washington in 1855 &ndash 56, between the Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Leschi became war chief, in command of around 300 men, and led a small number of raids which panicked the white population. Early in the conflict, Territorial militiamen Abram Benton Moses and Joseph Miles (or Miller) were killed. Leschi made peace overtures, including a surprise visit on January 5, 1856, to Fox Island to speak with Indian agent John Swan, but Stevens rebuffed him. Fox Island is a Census-designated place (CDP in Pierce County, Washington, United States, on an island of the same name in Puget Sound In March 1856, Stevens arrested some settlers with claims along Muck Creek in Pierce County because he believed they were cooperating with Leschi. Lacking evidence that would withstand scrutiny in court, Stevens declared martial law over Pierce County on April 2, 1856. On May 7, Judge Edward Lander convened his federal court in Pierce County in defiance of the governor, and Stevens had the judge arrested. Stevens abrogated martial law on May 24, 1856, and later pardoned himself for declaring it in the first place. His pardon stated:

That I Isaac I. Stevens Governor of the said Territory by virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor. . . do hereby respite the said Isaac I. Stevens defendant from execution of said judgment and all proceedings for the enforcement and collection of said fine and costs.

Leschi was taken into custody under disputed circumstances involving a member of his band responding to a government reward offer, and his brother turned himself in. Quiemuth was murdered on November 18, 1856, by an unknown assailant, in Governor Stevens's office in Olympia, where he was being held for the night on his way to the jail at Fort Steilacoom, now in Lakewood, Washington. Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year For the adjacent park see Fort Steilacoom Park Fort Steilacoom was founded by the U Lakewood is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Leschi himself was put on trial in 1858 for the murder of Colonel Moses, which he denied having committed. Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common His first trial resulted in a hung jury because of the judge's instruction that killing of combatants during wartime did not constitute murder. A hung jury is a Jury that cannot agree upon a Verdict after an extended period of Deliberation and is deadlocked with irreconcilable differences of He was convicted and sentenced to death in a second trial in which this instruction was not given and his lawyers, Frank Clark and William Wallace, were not allowed to introduce potentially exonerating evidence. Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. One supporter, William Fraser Tolmie, petitioned the new governor, LaFayette McMullen, to pardon Leschi, but the governor refused. William Fraser Tolmie (aka "Dr Tolmie") ( February 3, 1812 &ndash December 8, 1886) was a Canadian Surgeon LaFayette " Fayette " McMullen ( May 18, 1805 &ndash November 8, 1880) was a nineteenth century Another supporter, United States Army officer August Kautz, published two issues of a newspaper defending Leschi. August Valentine Kautz (January 5 1828 &ndash September 4 1895 was a German-American soldier and Union Army Cavalry officer during the American Titled the Truth Teller, the newspaper's masthead stated: "Devoted to the Dissemination of Truth and the Suppression of Humbug. " Tolmie's petition and the front page of the Truth Teller are reprinted in Ezra Meeker's 1905 history, The Tragedy of Leschi.

Leschi's execution was initially scheduled for January 22, 1858, but his supporters arranged an elaborate plot in which the Pierce County sheriff, George Williams, allowed himself to be arrested by sympathetic members of the United States Army rather than carry out the execution. On February 19, 1858, Leschi was hanged in a small valley, from a hastily constructed gallows near Lake Steilacoom, in what is today the city of Lakewood. Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death A gallows is a frame typically wooden used for execution by Hanging. Lake Steilacoom is a Lake approximately 4 km (25 mi southwest of Tacoma in Pierce County Washington, United States. The hangman is reported to have later said "I felt then I was hanging an innocent man, and I believe it yet. "

Roughly three decades later, Frederick J. Grant named the Leschi neighborhood in Seattle after the chief in the late 1880s. Leschi is a neighborhood located within the city of Seattle Washington. Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of Electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered Today, the neighborhood and its waterfront park; schools in Seattle and Puyallup; and streets in Seattle, Lakewood, Steilacoom, Anderson Island, and Olympia, bear his name. Leschi Park is an 185 acre (75000 m² Park in the Leschi Neighborhood of Seattle Washington, named after Chief Leschi of Puyallup Washington (pjuËˈɑËlÉ™p is a city in Pierce County, Washington about five miles east of Tacoma. Steilacoom is a town in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Anderson Island may refer to Anderson Island (Tasmania, Australia Anderson Island (Minnesota, USA Anderson Island

In March 2004, both houses of the Washington state legislature passed resolutions stating that Leschi was wrongly convicted and executed and asked the state supreme court to vacate Leschi's conviction. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The court's chief justice, however, said that this was unlikely to happen, since it was not at all clear that the state court had jurisdiction in a matter decided 146 years earlier in a territorial court. On December 10, 2004, Chief Leschi was exonerated by a unanimous vote by a Historical Court of Inquiry following a definitive trial in absentia. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "

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