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The Puyallup Tribe of Indians (/ p j uː ˈ æ l ə p / pew-AL-əp; Twulshootseed: spuyaləpabš, lit. 'people of the bend'; [1] [note 1] commonly known as the Puyallup Tribe) [2] is a federally-recognized tribe of Puyallup people from western Washington state, United States. The tribe is primarily located on the Puyallup Indian Reservation ...
The name "Puyallup" is an anglicization of the Lushootseed word spuyaləpabš.The name means "people of the bend (at the bottom of the river)," [2] literally s√puy=áləp=abš, from the root √puy̓, 'curve'; the suffix =alap, 'leg or hip'; and the suffix =abš, 'people', [1] and refers to the way that the Puyallup people live on the winding river. [3]
From 1873 to 1880, Henry Sicade attended the Puyallup Indian School. [11] He was the great-nephew of Leschi (Nisqually) and the grandson of Chief Stann of the Puyallup Tribe. [12] Due to his hardships at the school, he went on to help start the Fife Public Schools as an alternative education for native children in the area. [13]
In 1877, Ezra Meeker platted a townsite and named it Puyallup after the local Puyallup Indian tribes, 11 years after departing from Indiana. [10] The town grew rapidly throughout the 1880s, in large part thanks to Meeker's hop farm, which brought in millions of dollars to Puyallup, leading to it eventually being incorporated in 1890, with Ezra ...
Shelly Schlumpf, president of the Puyallup Historical Society, said they are working with the tribe on the possibility of having tribal art installations at the heritage center, among other things.
The Emerald Queen, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ riverboat casino that operated from 1997 to 2004, is pictured while moored in Blair Waterway in a Nov. 9, 2006, file photo.
The tribes listed on the Treaty of Medicine Creek are Nisqually, Puyallup, Steilacoom, Squawskin (Squaxin Island), S'Homamish, Stehchass, T'Peeksin, Squi-aitl, and Sa-heh-wamish. The treaty was signed on December 26, 1854, by Isaac I. Stevens , governor and superintendent of Indian Affairs of the territory at the time of the signing, along with ...
Chef Yamaguchi is a pioneer of Hawaiian Regional Cuisine and creator of Roy’s Restaurants with footprints on several islands. He partnered with the Puyallup Tribe in 2022. Construction on the ...