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The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
Quil Ceda Village (Lushootseed: qʷəl'sidəʔ ʔalʔaltəd) [2] is a municipality established by the federally-recognized Tulalip Tribes of Washington within the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It includes the Quil Ceda Village Business Park, a commercial development constructed and operated by the ...
The Tulalip Tribes of Washington (/ t ʊ ˈ l eɪ l ɪ p /, Lushootseed: dxʷlilap [a]), formerly known as the Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Duwamish, [3] Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, and Stillaguamish people. [1]
Manasseh Cutler (May 13, 1742 – July 28, 1823) was an American Congregational clergyman involved in the American Revolutionary War.He was influential in the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and wrote the section prohibiting slavery in the Northwest Territory.
Established in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation through the Northwest Ordinance, it was the nation's first post-colonial organized incorporated territory. At the time of its creation, the territory included all the land west of Pennsylvania , northwest of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River below the Great Lakes , and what ...
Southern Lushootseed, otherwise known as Twulshootseed (txʷəlšucid) [8] is spoken by the various peoples, historical and contemporary, located in King, Pierce, Thurston, Mason, and Kitsap counties.
The Ohio Company's purchase was enabled first by the passage on July 13, 1787, of the "Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio," commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, and second, by the Act of October 23, 1787, which authorized Congress to make contracts of public lands for not less ...
[4] [12] This treaty created the Tulalip Reservation, to which the Skykomish people were made to relocate. [13] To this day, the Skykomish are recognized as one of the founding nations of the Tulalip Tribes. [14] In the mid-1800s prior to the treaty signing, the population of the Skykomish was estimated at 410-450.