"Tulalip Tribes" painting

Tulalip is a group of Native American peoples from western 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 Tulalip people settled onto reservation lands after signing the Point Elliott Treaty with the former Washington Territory 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 Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. 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 The reservation is the western half of the Marysville Tulalip community. Marysville is an incorporated city and lies east of Interstate 5. Marysville is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, USA. The population was 25315 at the 2000 census Tulalip is a reservation and it lies west of Interstate 5. The Marysville School District serves both the reservation and the city.

The reservation has Quil Ceda Village as a business park and municipality to provide jobs and tax income for the reservation. Quil Ceda Village is a Municipality within the Tulalip Indian Reservation which includes the Quil Ceda Village Business Park, a commercial development constructed Situated alongside Interstate 5, it is home to the massive $72 million Tulalip Casino, a popular 100-store outlet mall and will be home to a 400-room resort due to open in 2008[1]. Interstate 5 (I-5 is the main Interstate highway on the West Coast of the United States, paralleling the Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico The Tulalip Resort Casino (formerly Tulalip Casino) is a Casino located on the Tulalip Indian Reservation in the U

Logo of the Tribe

The modern Tulalip is a mixture of several older indigenous peoples: the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Sauk-Suiattle, Samish and Stillaguamish; all these groups spoke a Salishan language called Lushootseed ( dx^wləšúcid ); the Lushootseed spelling of "Tulalip" is "dx^wlilap". Snohomish is the name of a Tribe of Native Americans who reside around the Puget Sound area of Washington, north of Seattle. The Snoqualmie ( S·dukwalbixw) are a group of Coast Salish Native American peoples from the Snoqualmie Valley in east Skagit (pronounced /ˈskæʤɪt/ or approximately "skajit" refers to two groups of Native American people living in the state of Washington, the Upper Sauk-Suiattle, or Sah-Ku-Me-Hu is a Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. The Samish are a Native American tribe who live in the US state of Washington. Stillaguamish are a Native American tribe located in northwest Washington state in the United States near the city of Arlington near the river that bears This article is about the Salish/Salishan language For the Tacoma Washington neighborhood see Salishan Tacoma Washington. Lushootseed (also xʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid, Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, Skagit-Nisqually) is the language or Dialect Like many Northwest Coast natives, the Tulalip relied on fishing from local rivers for food and built plank houses (longhouses) to protect themselves from the harsh, wet winters west of the Cascade Mountains.

History

A Tulalip family in front of their home on the reservation in 1916

Tulalip Indian Reservation

The Tulalip Indian Reservation lies on Port Susan Bay in western Snohomish County, adjacent to the western border of the city of Marysville. An Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American Tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau Snohomish (snow-HOE'-mish County is a County located in the U It has a land area of 91. 325 km² (35. 261 sq mi) and a 2000 census population of 9,246 persons residing within its boundaries. Its largest community is Tulalip Bay. Tulalip Bay is a Census-designated place (CDP in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.

Communities

• Cathan
• John Sam Lake
• Priest Point
• Shaker Church
• Stimson Crossing
• Tulalip Bay
• Weallup Lake

References

• Tulalip Reservation, Washington United States Census Bureau

External links

• Tulalip Tribes homepage
• u-s-history.com's Tulalip Tribes page