400 results for: Indigenous Peoples
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Native American student demonstration against Bureau of Indian Affairs, Seattle, 1971
On February 16, 1971, one hundred Native students at the University of Washington marched from the university's main campus to the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Eastlake, in support of the United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupation of Fort Lawton. The protest at the 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood…
ID Number:1986.5.53853.1
Date:1971
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Bernie Whitebear, Seattle, 1971
Bernie Whitebear was born in the town of Nespelem on the Colville Reservation in 1937. After growing up in poverty on the reservation, he moved to Western Washington in 1955 and shortly became a fisherman on the Puyallup River. In the late 1950s, Bernie Whitebear joined a campaign of activism to protect Native fishing rights, which had been guaranteed by…
ID Number:1986.5.55140.1
Date:1971
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Indigenous fishers practicing their fishing rights, 1972
In the 1960s and 1970s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) coordinated a series of protests and…
ID Number:1986.5.56319.1
Date:1972
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Indigenous family working in a hop field in western Washington, circa 1900
From the late 1860s to the early 1890s, hop farming was an important activity in the valleys of the Puget Sound region, including Puyallup, White River, and Snoqualmie. Indigenous workers came from throughout the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska (but especially from regional tribes like the Puyallup, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Duwamish, Sammamish, Lummi, and Nisqually) as a seasonal labor force to…
ID Number:1990.45.11
Date:Circa 1900
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Encampment of Indigenous people on Ballast Island at the Seattle waterfront, circa 1900
In 1865 the Board of Trustees of Seattle passed Ordinance No. 5 banning Indigenous people from living in the city unless they worked for a non-Indigenous resident and lived on their employer's property. Despite this attempt to enforce separation between Indigenous people and the settlers, Seattle depended on Indigenous people. Settlers relied on Native people for domestic work and for…
ID Number:1990.45.14
Date:Circa 1900
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Indigenous men at work picking hops, circa 1890
From the late 1860s to the early 1890s, hop farming was an important activity in the valleys of the Puget Sound region, including Puyallup, White River, and Snoqualmie. Indigenous workers came from throughout the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska (but especially from regional tribes like the Puyallup, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Duwamish, Sammamish, Lummi, and Nisqually) as a seasonal labor force to…
ID Number:1991.79.36
Date:Circa 1890
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Cheholtz family in front of fishing shack, near Castle Rock, Washington, circa 1885
The Cowlitz People are a Coast Salish group whose historic lands are along the Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers, in what is now southwestern Washington. Traditionally, the annual cycle of resource gathering determined where the Cowlitz People traveled and at what time of year – from river fishing in the spring, gathering roots and berries in summer and fall, and making…
ID Number:1991.79.49
Date:Circa 1885
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Group of Nooksacks near Lynden, Washington, circa 1900
The Nooksack are a Coast Salish people whose historic lands centered on the Nooksack River drainage basin, from the shore to around Mount Baker in the east. They have their own language, also named Nooksack. On the edges of Nooksack land and in offshore waters, resources were shared with neighboring peoples, to whom the Nooksack were linked by shared descent…
ID Number:1991.79.72
Date:Circa 1900
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Jim Yellakanim, Nooksack chief, circa 1898
The Nooksack are a Coast Salish people whose historic lands centered on the Nooksack River drainage basin, from the shore to around Mount Baker in the east. They have their own language, also named Nooksack. On the edges of Nooksack land and in offshore waters, resources were shared with neighboring peoples, to whom the Nooksack were linked by shared descent…
ID Number:1991.79.82
Date:Circa 1898
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Kate Borst christening the steamer "Snoqualmie," August 11, 1919
In August 1919, the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company launched the steamer "Snoqualmie" at its Seattle shipyard on Harbor Island. The vessel was named for the Snoqualmie Tribe, in honor of the aid they gave the settlers against other Indigenous groups in the war of 1855-1856, now referred to as the Puget Sound War. Many tribal members traveled to…
ID Number:1995.37.19.2.54
Date:1919