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Image of Mayor Uhlman speaking at site dedication for Native cultural center at  Fort Lawton, November 14, 1971
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Mayor Uhlman speaking at site dedication for Native cultural center at Fort Lawton, November 14, 1971

In the late 1960s, the US Army announced its intention to decommission most of the land at Fort Lawton. The City of Seattle planned to turn the land into a park. However, members of Seattle’s Indigenous community wanted instead to reclaim the land for use by Indigenous peoples. On March 8, 1970, members of the United Indians of All Tribes…
ID Number:2002.46.6563.18A
Date:1971
Image of Bernie Whitebear speaking at site dedication for Native cultural center at Fort Lawton, November 14, 1971
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Bernie Whitebear speaking at site dedication for Native cultural center at Fort Lawton, November 14, 1971

In the late 1960s, the US Army announced its intention to decommission most of the land at Fort Lawton. The City of Seattle planned to turn the land into a park. However, members of Seattle’s Indigenous community wanted instead to reclaim the land for use by Indigenous peoples. On March 8, 1970, members of the United Indians of All Tribes…
ID Number:2002.46.6563.35A
Date:1971
Image of Aerial of Fort Lawton from northwest, Seattle, circa 1940
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Aerial of Fort Lawton from northwest, Seattle, circa 1940

In 1897, the city of Seattle donated land on Magnolia Bluff to the US government to build a new Army post as part of a defense system for Puget Sound; this was designated as Fort Lawton in 1900. During most of its active service, the fort served as an embarkation station where troops gathered before being sent to duty in…
ID Number:2002.48.823
Date:Circa 1940
Image of Indigenous family selling baskets in downtown Seattle, circa 1912
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Indigenous family selling baskets in downtown Seattle, circa 1912

At the turn of 19th to 20th centuries, Indigenous artists in the Pacific Northwest were making baskets and carvings specifically for the tourist trade and were experimenting with form and design. Making baskets for sale became an important income source for many Indigenous families. On this colorized photo postcard, three women and a boy display woven baskets and rugs on…
ID Number:2002.50.41.1
Date:Circa 1912
Image of Group of people tending to a fishing canoe, La Push, Washington, circa 1955
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Group of people tending to a fishing canoe, La Push, Washington, circa 1955

This photo is one of a sequence of scenes of smelt fishing taken by the photographer at La Push, Washington, on Quileute land. Here, Men and women tend to a canoe and nets on shore. Three of the individuals have been identified as Ramona Bennett, Walter Bennett, and Cynthia Davis.
ID Number:2004.43.1386
Date:Circa 1955
Image of First Annual Salmon Homecoming poster, Seattle, September 16-19, 1993
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First Annual Salmon Homecoming poster, Seattle, September 16-19, 1993

In 1992, the Seattle Aquarium held its first Salmon Homecoming celebration, with a month of educational events to highlight the return of salmon to the streams of their birth. In 1993, this became a four-day event called the First Annual Salmon Homecoming Celebration, held on September 16-19 and presented by the Seattle Aquarium in conjunction with the Tribal Communities of…
ID Number:2007.25.14
Date:1993
Image of Native American couple posing outside of wooden shack, Seattle, circa 1900
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Native American couple posing outside of wooden shack, Seattle, circa 1900

Anders Beer Wilse (1865-1949) emigrated from Norway in 1884, arriving in Seattle in 1890 to work for the United States Geological Survey. Photography was an important part of his job, and in 1897 he decided to become a full time outdoor photographer. Until his return to Norway in 1900, Wilse took many photographs in and around Seattle, documenting the bustle…
ID Number:2011.1.156
Date:Circa 1900
Image of Native American camp with canoes, Ballast Island, Washington Street, Seattle, circa 1890
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Native American camp with canoes, Ballast Island, Washington Street, Seattle, circa 1890

By the late 19th century, most Seattle-area Native Americans had been moved to reservations and were not allowed to live in the city. Sometime before 1895, visiting Native American people started camping on Ballast Island, at the foot of Washington Street. After 1895, waterfront development forced the encampment away from here. This photo shows canoes and tents at the Ballast…
ID Number:2011.26.7.43
Date:Circa 1890
Image of Seattle Totems program, 1967
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Seattle Totems program, 1967

The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise in the Pacific Coast Hockey League (later Western Hockey League or WHL) from 1944-1974 and in the Central Hockey League for the 1974-1975 season. The Totems won three WHL Lester Patrick Cup championships: 1959, 1967, and 1968.The appropriation of Indigenous names for professional sports teams has been popular since the 19th…
ID Number:2017.19.1
Date:1967
Image of Chief Seattle Day program, 1915
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Chief Seattle Day program, 1915

The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In 1912 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Potlatch celebration (an early version of Seafair) and financed the statue of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.32
Date:1915
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