Suquamish woman photographed by Edward S. Curtis in 1913. Edward Sheriff Curtis ( February 16, 1868 &ndash October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native

The Suquamish are a Native American tribe of Washington State in the United States. Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

The Suquamish are a southern Coast Salish people; they spoke a dialect of Lushootseed, which belongs to the Salishan language family. Coast Salish refers to a cultural or ethnographic designation of a subgroup of the First Nations or Native American cultures in British Columbia, Lushootseed (also xʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid, Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, Skagit-Nisqually) is the language or Dialect This article is about the Salish/Salishan language For the Tacoma Washington neighborhood see Salishan Tacoma Washington. Like many Northwest Coast natives, the Suquamish relied on fishing from local rivers and Puget Sound for food and built plank longhouses to protect themselves from the wet winters west of the Cascade Mountains.

The Suquamish traditionally lived on the western shores of Puget Sound, from Apple Tree Cove in the north to Gig Harbor in the south, including Bainbridge Island and Blake Island. 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 Appletree Cove is a bay and estuary on the Kitsap Peninsula. The cove is fed by Carpenter Creek; its Estuary is a tidal flood zone that fills Gig Harbor is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Bainbridge Island is an Island in Puget Sound, and is an incorporated city in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. Blake Island is an island in Washington state in the United States. During the summer, the Suquamish were widely dispersed, but when winter came they lived in a winter village centered around Old Man House, the largest longhouse on Puget Sound. Old Man House was the largest "bighouse" (a type of Longhouse) in what is now the U

First contact between the Suquamish and European explorers came in 1792 when George Vancouver explored Puget Sound and met with members of the Suquamish tribe, possibly including Schweabe and Kitsap. Year 1792 ( MDCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Captain George Vancouver Kitsap or Ktsap was a war chief of the Suquamish Tribe One source says that he was the most powerful chief on Puget Sound from 1790 to 1845 More regular contact with non-Indians came with the establishment of trading posts in Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia in the early 19th century. The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait (also known as the Gulf of Georgia) is a Strait between Vancouver Island (as well as its nearby

Once the Washington Territory was established in 1853, the U. The Washington Territory was a historic Organized territory of the United States that was formed in February 8, 1853 from the portion of the Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common S. government began the business of signing treaties with area tribes to acquire their lands. The Suquamish people ceded most of their land to the United States when they signed the Point Elliott Treaty on January 22, 1855. The Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855 or the Point Elliott Treaty is the lands settlement treaty between the United States government and the nominal Native American Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year They were able to retain some land, the Port Madison Indian Reservation, near their winter village site on Agate Pass. The Port Madison Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in northern Kitsap County, Washington. Agate Pass or Agate Passage is a high-current tidal Strait in Puget Sound connecting Port Madison and Port Orchard.

Though the Puget Sound Salish peoples were not generally organized above the level of individual villages, the Suquamish had a central location on Puget Sound and two members of the Suquamish came to be recognized across the region as great leaders. One was Kitsap, who led a coalition of Puget Sound tribes against the Cowichan Tribes of Vancouver Island around 1825. Kitsap or Ktsap was a war chief of the Suquamish Tribe One source says that he was the most powerful chief on Puget Sound from 1790 to 1845 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 Another was Seattle (also called Sealth, See-ahth, and Seathl), son of Schweabe, who was a great orator and peace-keeper during the turbulent times of the mid-19th century. Chief Seattle or Sealth ( Lushootseed: Ts’ial-la-kum; c 1786 – June 7, 1866) also spelled Seathle, Seathl Though both Kitsap and Sealth are often called "Chief," this is an attribution by English speakers; such designations were not used by the Puget Sound Indians themselves.

External links

• Suquamish Tribe (Port Madison Indian Reservation) homepage
• Suquamish Tribe culture and history page
• Suquamish Visitor Information